Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

Trainees operate at all times from an inclusive values base which promotes recovery and recognises and respects diversity. Trainees must respect and value individual differences in age, sexuality, disability, gender, spirituality, race and culture. The module aims to help trainees understand equality and diversity in a broader sense in that individuals can also experience disadvantage due to a wide range of factors, including geographic location, educational opportunities, and economic factors for example.

The module aims to develop professional practice that commits to equal opportunities for all, including an awareness of the power issues in professional- patient relationships and take steps in their clinical practice to reduce any potential for negative impact this may have.

The module will equip trainees with the knowledge and understanding of operating in a stepped care, high-volume environment. It will help them manage high caseloads, operate safely and to high standards of care and use supervision to aid their clinical decision-making.

In addition, the module aims to offer understanding of social inclusion – including return to work and meaningful activity or other occupational activities – as well as clinical improvement. This will include knowledge of statutory, community and third sector agencies.

Skills teaching will develop trainees clinical management, liaison and decision-making competencies in the delivery of support to patients, particularly where people require intervention or advice outside the core low-intensity evidence-based interventions taught in Module 2.

Outline Of Syllabus

•       The stepped healthcare model and interventions utilised at different steps
•       Introduction to the diversity module on the programme - Impact of values (service user’s and therapist’s) upon mental health difficulties and interventions
•       The impact of society upon mental health difficulties, social class and poverty
•       Employment and mental health / social inclusion
• Development and operation of non-discriminatory and anti-racist practice
• Impact of diversity on practice and associated accommodation (e.g., through use of translation services)
•       Long term physical health conditions, mental health and low intensity therapy
•       Working with perinatal clients, common mental health and low intensity therapy
•       Working with LGBTQ+ clients, mental health and low intensity therapy
•       Working with neurodiversity, mental health and low intensity therapy
•       Working with forensic clients, implications and low intensity therapy adaptations
• Impact of the power relationship upon therapeutic contact and associated accommodation associated with this (e.g., collaborative strategies)
• Clinical case management skills.
• Use of supervision in the implementation of therapeutic approaches, understanding and acting within the limits of personal competence.
• Skills and competencies associated with networking/working collaboratively with other agencies.
• Mapping, understanding and critically appraising the matrix of other agencies including community, statutory and voluntary service provision.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

By the end of the module trainees should be able to:

1.       Demonstrate knowledge of, and commitment to a non-discriminatory, recovery orientated values base to mental health care and to equal opportunities for all and encourage people’s active participation in every aspect of care and treatment.
2.       Demonstrate respect for and the value of individual differences in age, sexuality, disability, gender, spirituality, race and culture.
3.       Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in, responding to people's needs sensitively with regard to all aspects of diversity, including working with older people, the use of interpretation services and taking into account any cognitive, physical, or sensory difficulties patients may experience in accessing services.
4.       Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the power issues in professional-patient relationships.
5.       Demonstrate an awareness of voluntary, community and statutory organisations in their community that may be helpful to signpost/refer to.
6.       Demonstrate competence in managing a large caseload of people with common mental health problems efficiently and safely.
7.       Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in using supervision to assist the PWP's delivery of low-intensity psychological treatment and/or medication support programmes for depression or anxiety disorders.
8.       Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in gathering patient-centred information on employment needs, wellbeing and social inclusion and in liaison and signposting to other agencies delivering employment, occupational and other advice and services.
9.       Demonstrate an appreciation of the PWP’s own level of competence and boundaries of competence and role, and an understanding of how to work within a team and with other agencies with additional specific roles which cannot be fulfilled by the PWP alone.
10.       Demonstrate a clear understanding of what constitutes high-intensity psychological treatment and how this differs from low-intensity work.

Intended Skill Outcomes

By the end of the module trainees should be able to:

1) Access aids/support (e.g., advocates, translators) for service users who might benefit from this due to disability or difference.
2) Adjust assessment and intervention procedures to take disability/difference/diversity, and associated power/employment issues into account
3) Utilise methods to minimise any harmful effects of the professional/service user power differential
4) Manage a caseload and use supervision effectively to assist in the delivery clinical work
5) Gather patient-centred information on employment needs, well-being and social inclusion.
6) Liaise with others to facilitate and enhance team working and practice collaborative working with other agencies.

By the end of the module, trainees will be able to evidence skill in the following clinical practice outcomes which will be assessed by portfolio:

•       Demonstrates the ability to engage with people from diverse demographic, social and cultural backgrounds in assessment and delivery of low-intensity interventions. This could include adaptations to practice in line with positive practice guides, using interpretation services or self-help materials for people who are deaf or whose first language is not English, and/or adapting self-help materials for people with learning or literacy difficulties including as a result of cognitive or neurological conditions.
•       Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage a large caseload efficiently and safely, including step-up within NHS Talking Therapies, onward referral to employment support and signposted services, or other referral beyond NHS Talking Therapies
•       Demonstrates the ability to use supervision to the benefit of effective (a) case management and (b) clinical skills development.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

•       Didactic lecture segments establish a learning framework for the theoretical components of the module and the learning outcomes
•       Small group work within workshop segments enable role play practice of the relevant clinical topics, to enable trainees to practice and develop their clinical skills for clinically treating NHS patients. This ensures clinical skill develops within the learning outcomes. Seminars allow the real world application of theory learned in didactic lectures to be applied to clinical practice/patients.
•       Structured guided learning enable trainees to expand on theoretical knowledge of the lecture/workshop content, and translate this theory to clinical practice where relevant. This supports the application of theory to practice and advances knowledge and competence of the learning outcomes.
•       The placement ensures theory is embedded in clinical practice, which clinical competence advancing throughout the module with the support of on-going supervision provided through the placement

The total hours of the module exceeds 200 due to the nature of the programme of study. Students are employed full time by their NHS employer (37.5 hours FTE). 0.4 FTE of the working week is spent at the education institution and is detailed within the teaching activities, and 0.6 FTE is with the employer to full fill their employment contract. Their salary reflects the working hours of a full time employee on a clinical training contract

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

All assessment components must be passed independently.

The essay is reflective in nature. This assesses abilities linked to structuring, consolidating and presenting clinical material as well as academic content. It also assesses the students’ ability to reflect on their clinical use of theoretical concepts pertaining to the module.

Trainees will deliver a 20-minute presentation, based on the assessment and treatment plan linked to a diverse case
that has been a part of their caseload on placement. This will assess the skills outcomes linked to the module through a description of relevant clinical practice. It also assesses the trainees’ ability to perform an oral presentation tailored appropriately to an audience (which is part of the qualified PWP role).

The formative assessment is a rehearsal for the diversity presentation with trainees receiving qualitative feedback from programme staff prior to the summative assessments.

The portfolio allows for all skills outcomes to be assessed, and evidences whether the embedding of skills within the placement has occurred. The portfolio further enables the theoretical knowledge gained during the practice-based learning days to be evidenced and assessed.

In order to pass the module, trainees must pass all assessment components. In order to pass the placement within
the module, the practice-based outcomes set by NHS England must be evidenced in a practice portfolio, which
demonstrates the programmes content has been embedded in clinical practice. This includes assessment of clinical
competencies by clinical supervisors. Each practice portfolio must be passed. The clinical hours obtained on the
placement component of the module contributes to the required total of 80 hours on placement across the
programme.

General Notes

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