All elements of assessment must be passed.

Assessment No1. Case study related to mental health care.
This written assignment should concentrate on a single selected case encountered in clinical practice. Your study will examine the underpinning evidence which forms the basis for your clinical decision making in this instance and discuss the rationale for providing this mental health collaborative care plan (meets LO1 and LO3).

Assessment No2. Completion of a clinical portfolio.
This portfolio will include the competencies required by the Health Education England (HEE) mental health capabilities framework. These competencies must be signed off by a suitable work-based supervisor. Your portfolio will provide evidence of your proficiency in delivering mental health care and must include five case-based discussions that explore these topics: person-centered therapeutic alliance, professional accountability, assessment and investigations, formulation of patients problems, collaborative planning, and intervention and evaluation (meets LO2, LO4).

Mental Health 1st Aid
IAPT (improving access to psychological therapies) counselling
Key mental health conditions
Collaborative planning and advocacy to promote equality and equity of care
Intervention and evaluation of mental health
Person centred therapeutic alliance
Advanced communication skills
Clinical practice and therapeutic boundaries
Self-awareness and negotiating care pathways with the service user
Professional accountability
Leadership and management in mental health
Education in mental health
Research in mental health
Clinical portfolio development

The purpose of this module is to enable you to gain and expand your knowledge and essential skills in advanced mental health practice as a health care professional. You will study key mental health conditions whether in isolation or alongside physical health problems, assessment, co-ordinated care planning, person centred therapeutic interventions/ alliances and contribute to the professional development of new knowledge and research. You will develop your knowledge of mental health conditions, mental health non-emergency and emergency assessment, care approaches, legislation and international, national and local policies.

Several learning strategies are undertaken by students whilst on the module. Theoretical lessons are delivered using a blended strategy approach with online lectures, face to face classroom sessions. Students are also required to undertake directed study listening to podcast, researching case studies. Work placed learning is also an essential strategy where students engage with co-ordinating education supervisors and workplace supervisors. Virtual learning is also delivered via online VLE. Service user and carer voice and involvement in module delivery is utilised where appropriate.
Simulated learning activities.
Work-based supervision
Formative feedback: tutorials, scenario discussions, and formative feedback
Group tutorial on assignment with formative feedback on assignment plan
Formative feedback from clinical practice setting on case-based discussion.

Module Team
Academic mentors
Access to clinical environments
Access to the Internet especially for access to e- journals and health websites
Learning Packages
Service User Videos

Health Education England 2021 Advanced Practice mental Health Curriculum and Capabilities Framework. The NHS Constitution.
Bickley, LS. (2020), Bates Guide to Physical Examination and history taking , 13th Edition, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
Gambrill, E, (2012), Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice: Improving the Quality of Judgements and Decisions, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition
Jarvis, C, (2016), 7th Edition, Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Saunders (available as e-book from library)
Saunders Sox, H.C., (2013), Medical Decision Making, Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Edition
Standing, Mooi (20210) Clinical Judgement and decision making in nursing and interprofessional healthcare. McGraw-Hill Open University press (available as e-book from library).

Registered with an appropriate professional body. Students must be clinically based (with appropriate liability insurance provision employment, or honorary contract,) have the written support of their manager who will support the student to achieve protected time for clinical and classroom-based learning and provide written confirmation of an identified clinical preceptor, who must be a senior clinician experienced in the field in which the assessment is to take place (for example a Consultant/ Specialist Registrar or GP or an Advanced Practitioner). Students must have a current, clear DBS Certificate.

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge which is at the forefront of advanced mental health practice.
Knowledge and understanding

2. Evaluate complex issues both systematically and creatively, make sound judgements in the absence of complete data, and employ appropriate decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations.
Problem solving

3. Critically analyse policy, legislation, professional roles, and models of interprofessional care which enhance mental & physical health services and actively involves the person, their families, carers and wider partners.
Analysis

4. Demonstrate the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment requiring the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems, and act autonomously in planning and implementing tasks at a professional or equivalent level.
Problem solving
Application
Reflection