Inpatient CAMHS CYP Whole Team Training

Develop the skills to provide best-evidence, outcomes-focused and client-informed treatment in children and young people's inpatient settings, with part-time team training that combines content and skills teaching with reflection on your practice.

Choose Inpatient CAMHS CYP Whole Team Training at the University of Reading

• Your training will be delivered within the Charlie Waller Institute. Established in 2008, the Institute offers award-winning training underpinned by psychological research.
• NHS partners send teams of up to 5 established staff in Inpatient unit roles or Alternative to Admission roles onto the CPD training to equip them with the necessary skills to fulfil their current role and provide treatment which is based on best evidence, outcomes-focused and client-informed practice.
• Employment is generally by the NHS for the duration of training, and ongoing after completion of the training. Sometimes units do send agency staff who work very regularly on their units to the training.
• You will develop your skills with a mixture of content and skills teaching, as well as undertaking reflections on your practice.
• We have delivered CPD training to more than 13 cohorts of trainees since 2015.
• You’ll be taught by experienced and enthusiastic practitioners.
• Applications are welcome from self-funding units.

What you’ll learn

Topics include:

• understanding our unit
• good communication within systems
• attachment patterns on the unit
• the impact of secondary trauma
• shared decision making
• the family life cycle
• enhancing the therapeutic milieu
• clinical supervision
• outcome monitoring
• shared formulation
• managing risk and transitions
• understanding eating disorders.

Who is the programme for?

Suitable for: All inpatient staff. No prior academic or professional requirements. Suitable for any staff from the Multi-Disciplinary Team from band 2 upwards.

Guidelines for self-funders

Get in touch with the admissions tutor, Kat Hindley, to discuss: k.l.hindley@reading.ac.uk

Course duration

Training is a 12-day part-time course spread over 6 weeks using an online platform via the University of Reading and normally runs twice per year, starting in February and September.

How you’ll learn

Induction days: you’ll attend two face-to-face days including the induction day at last day at Reading University. This will be followed by approximately 2 days per week of online teaching, where you will be required to attend classes online from 09:30 to 16:00.

Clinical practice

There are no clinical practice requirements but it is expected that most participants are currently working in CYP inpatient settings.

Assessment of competencies

There is no formal assessment but an informal presentation will be completed during your time on the course and presented by your team in one of the last teaching days.