King's College London

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Postgraduate degree

Overview

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Please note the next start date is January 2026

This programme is for leaders and managers of CYP-PT Services in health, social care and the third sector who are managing and leading enhanced services or new services employing more junior staff in training posts on programmes provided by CYP Psychological Trainings.

This programme covers aspects of professional leadership in the NHS and commissioned third sector, specifically in CAMHS, and specifically in relation to developing new services employing Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and Education Mental Health Practitioners working in Mental Health Support Teams in educational settings. NSHE has worked with HEI training providers including at King’s to develop syllabus guidance and the programme follows these.

Key benefits

Background knowledge and understanding to implement change within CYP-MH services and practical tools to manage this change effectively.
Framework for reflective practice and evaluation of the implementation process.
Critical knowledge of the theoretical, research and implementation literature that underpins such service change.
Space to reflect on issues of ethnicity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) and their impact on leadership and service delivery.

Course essentials

The main aims are to help students provide a responsive, evidence-based service as a senior clinical or service lead in a health, voluntary sector or social care organization, by providing them with up to date knowledge about evidence-based practice and service transformation to equip them to respond to the challenges of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in the new commissioning environment, and be able to reflect on their own leadership skills.

Specifically, within the framework of supporting transformation and change within children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing services, including developing a new workforce in line with government policy, at the end of the course, students will be able to:

Course aims

Demonstrate knowledge of the government’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing Services transformation and new workforce programmes, including Referral systems and Care pathways.
Demonstrate understanding of service settings as complex organisational systems.
Demonstrate critical appreciation of a range of key practice issues associated with the sustainable development of routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice
Demonstrate a critical appreciation of the key practice issues involved in sustainably increasing young people’s participation in the service.
Demonstrate an appreciation of the importance of staying up to date with the best available evidence for mental health interventions with children and young people in the relevant setting/s.
Synthesise new approaches to contribute to the development of methodology and understanding in transformational service change.
Demonstrate critical knowledge of the theoretical, research and implementation literature that underpins such service change.

Key Information

Course type:

Certificate

Delivery mode:

Classroom & Online

Study mode:

Part time

Duration:

One year

Credit value:

60 credits

Application status:

Open

Start date:

January 2026

Taught in

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Administrative bodies

Regulating body

Application closing date guidance

The applications portal is open for the January 2026 intake from August 1^st - 25^th November 2025.

Course start date: 12^th January 2026.

Base campus

Students outside the main building at Denmark Hill

Denmark Hill Campus

Denmark Hill, in Southwark, London, is a vibrant area known for its historical landmarks and green spaces. Home to King's College and the Maudsley Hospitals, it also features Ruskin Park, named after John Ruskin, and the Camberwell College of Arts.