Are you looking to engage with ‘cutting-edge’ theory and learn a range of transferable skills to enhance your professional practice?
The Neurodevelopmental Conditions Post-graduate Certificate (PgC) offers a unique opportunity to continue your professional development delivered by current interdisciplinary practitioners and specialist academic staff.
Join us to advance your career, contribute effectively to mental health care, and help to improve the lives of everyone in our communities.
For further information about the course including duration, level, and fees, please visit the University of Chester website.
Who is it for:
A course designed and delivered by staff working in this speciality for all allied health and social care staff.
Course overview:
The overarching aim of this PgC course is to enable staff to gain in-depth knowledge of current thinking and practices in neurodevelopmental conditions to incorporate directly into health and social care practice.
This course will be delivered by current interdisciplinary practitioners and specialist academic staff. The PgC Neurodevelopmental Conditions has been designed by senior clinicians at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust (CWP) and the Centre for Autism, Neuro Developmental Disorders and Intellectual Disability (CANDDID) and the University of Chester.
An informal discussion is welcome with the Programme Team to answer any questions you have before applying.
If this PgC is of interest to you then please contact:
Professor Steven Jones: steven.jones@chester.ac.uk
Professor Sujeet Jaydeokar: sujeet.
The PgC offers an opportunity for experienced interdisciplinary staff to study for a qualification that directly benefits themselves, their working practice, and people with lived experience.
Staff that work in mental health settings may undertake a PgC that is directly relevant to their clinical practice. Clinical professors and senior lecturers from a range of disciplines will deliver the module content.
The three modules for the PgC are already validated and delivered on the MSc in Psychiatry, Neurodevelopmental Disorders pathway.
The PgC is a unique blend of academic learning and sub-speciality clinical training. The three clinical 20 credit modules focus on mental health law and ethics, sub-speciality module, and therapeutic interventions that underpin the delivery of care and treatment.
✓ Produce challenging and critical thinking practitioners with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to mental healthcare care assessment and treatment provision.
✓ Prepare effective practitioners whose interventions will be underpinned by the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical decision making skills.
✓ Develop the student’s confidence, competence, and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and professional decision making providing high quality evidenced based practice.
✓ Promote commitment to the concept of lifelong learning and thereby foster ongoing personal and professional development. ✓ To provide students with opportunities to engage with ‘cutting-edge’ theory and evidence in applied mental health domains, with a view to promoting societal innovation.
✓ To offer a dynamic and quality educational experience relevant to neurodevelopmental person-centred care.
➢ The programme will start with an induction day on 26th February 2025
➢ Study part time from March – November 2025
An informal discussion is welcome with the contact below to help answer any questions you have before applying. If this PgC if of interest to you then please contact:
Professor Steven Jones: steven.
Professor Sujeet Jaydeokar: sujeet.
