Care Planning in Partnership

Module title	Care Planning in Partnership
Module code	PYCM121
Academic year	2021/2
Credits	20
Module staff	Ms Debbie Williams (Convenor)

Duration: Term	1	2	3
Duration: Weeks	10	10	10

Number students taking module (anticipated)	20

Module description

This component enables you as a MHWP to mobilise resources in collaboration with service users, carers and families – including information, resources within the multi-disciplinary team and beyond in the wider community. It also enables MHWPs to make effective use of clinical supervision and to look after their own wellbeing.

Module aims - intentions of the module

MWHP will develop the skills to draw on local resources, work with multi-disciplinary teams and ensure appropriate information can be given the service users to support recovery. Sound clinical and theoretical principles will underpin hypothesis and MWHP will be able to share decision making with service users. Professional standards will facilitate safe care for those forming the MHWP’s caseload. The MHWP will be able use their services supervision to support their own wellbeing and develop reflective practice.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the service users significant relationships and ability to appropriately involve families and carers in care planning
2. Demonstrate ability to give information to service users, families and carers in a helpful way
3. Demonstrate awareness of the range of resources available to support wellbeing and recovery in the locality served and to inform shared decision making in practice
4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the roles in multi-disciplinary teams (within primary care teams and mental health community teams) and understanding of the role of employment support in the team;
5. Demonstrate knowledge of and competence collaborative care planning within the multi-disciplinary team, with active management of risk and safeguarding and with understanding of the impact of this on service user, family and carers;
6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of symptom focused and personal recovery/wellbeing models of mental health;
7. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of diagnosis and formulation, how they differ, limitations and benefits.
8. Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the power issues in professional /service user relationships and family and carer relationships.
9. Demonstrate competence in managing a caseload of people with severe mental health problems efficiently and safely.
10. Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in using reflexive practice and clinical supervision to assist the workers delivery of low- intensity psychological interventions.
11. Demonstrate understanding of self-care and wellbeing for staff and teams and evidence this in practice
12. Demonstrate knowledge of, and competence in using clinical information systems and correspondence

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

13. Summarise basic and essential factual and conceptual knowledge of the subject, and demonstrate a critical understanding of this knowledge.
14. Review and evaluate established work and identify some of the strengths and weaknesses of this work.

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

15. Record accurately interviews and questionnaire assessments using paper and electronic record-keeping systems.
16. Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, challenge received opinion and develop your own criteria and judgement, and seek and make use of feedback

Syllabus plan

The module content, module-specific learning objectives, style of delivery and assessment for this module are informed by the National Curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners – Specialist Adult Mental Health for the training of Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners to support the delivery of low intensity CBT. Teaching content will include:

Knowledge Concerning Care Planning in Partnership?

Collaborative working and shared decision making
Appropriate involvement of families and carers
Multidisciplinary decision making.
Accessing resources.
The roles of associated disciplines.
Personal and symptom recovery.
Formulation and diagnosis.
Power dynamics
Caseload management
Information governance and communication.
Use of supervision.
Self-care/ self & team wellbeing.

Intensive Skills Practice?

Use of supervision
Collaborative care planning?
Information giving
Personal and symptom recovery.

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
50	70	80

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching	25	Practical classes these will be used to develop clinical competencies in assessment and engagement through tutor supervised small group role-play
Scheduled Learning and Teaching	7	Lectures
Scheduled Learning and Teaching	10	Seminars these will be led by the tutor and address a range of important topics covered in the module
Scheduled Learning and Teaching	8	Tutorials these will take the form of small group sessions led by the tutor
Guided Independent Study	40	Reading and preparation for seminars and/or flipped classroom delivery model
Guided Independent Study	30	Undertaking structured reflective blogging of care planning practice with colleagues during workplace role-play or service user work
Placement	30	Develop an understanding of service related clinical protocols, policies and procedures to inform practice, and develop knowledge of role and care planning systems.
Placement	20	Within the workplace, Supervision will be provided by a HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist or a BABCP accredited CBT Therapist with competence in the MHWP interventions with people with severe mental health problems. Trainees should undertake a minimum of 40 hours of clinical supervision of which at least 20 hours should be weekly 1:1 case management supervision and at least 20 hours should be clinical skills supervision, either individual or group-based, on a fortnightly basis.
Placement	30	Programme members will be employed by their Trusts as trainee MHWPs where they will work 3 - 5 days a week over the year. In this time they will accumulate a minimum of 80 contact hours with service users within an adult community mental health service (of which 40 hours should be specifically delivering low intensity interventions). Reading and preparation around adaptations to practice, and preparation for clinical planning scenario

Formative assessment

Form of assessment	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
A portfolio of collaborative care plans developed with service users, demonstrating effective use of available resources of information, team members, and wider community/networks.	Contingent on cases	1-16	Oral, at tutorial
Academic assignment: A Case Report via presentation detailing care planning with a service user, linked to relevant theories of mental health and intervention	20 minute presentation.	1-16	Oral and written
Successful completion of the following practice outcomes, to be assessed by means of a practice outcomes portfolio and supervisor report: Demonstrates competence in the mobilisation of appropriate resources with service users Demonstrates high quality use of clinical information systems and effective correspondence. Demonstrates effective use of clinical supervision and self-care	Programme member will usually contribute around 100 words about the report and the nature and quality of supervision and the placement provided	1-16	Oral, at tutorial

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Coursework	Written exams	Practical exams
50	0	50

Details of summative assessment

Form of assessment	% of credit	Size of the assessment (eg length / duration)	ILOs assessed	Feedback method
A portfolio of collaborative care plans developed with service users, demonstrating effective use of available resources of information, team members, and wider community/networks (this assessment must be passed; failure in this assessment will lead to failure in the module and the programme).	50	Contingent on cases	1-16	Written and oral
Academic assignment: A Case Report via presentation detailing care planning with a service user, linked to relevant theories of mental health and intervention (this assessment must be passed; failure in this assessment will lead to failure in the module and the programme).	50	20 minutes with accompanying powerpoint presentation and reference list.	1-16	Written and oral
Successful completion of the following practice outcomes, to be assessed by means of a practice outcomes portfolio and supervisor report: Demonstrates competence in the mobilisation of appropriate resources with service users Demonstrates high quality use of clinical information systems and effective correspondence. Demonstrates effective use of clinical supervision and self-care (this assessment must be passed; failure in this assessment will lead to failure in the module and the programme)	0	80 hours minimum practice and 40 hours minimum supervision (incorporates all elements of the programme) Programme member will usually contribute around 100 words about the report and the nature and quality of supervision and the placement provided	1-16	Written and oral

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Original form of assessment	Form of re-assessment	ILOs re-assessed	Timescale for re-assessment
Portfolio of collaborative care plans.	Portfolio	1-16	Four weeks from the date that feedback was provided
Case Report	(i) Same as the original assessment via case presentation or (ii) in certain circumstances, a written report addressing areas failed in the presentation may be requested.	1-16	Four weeks from the date that feedback was provided
Practice outcomes document	Practice outcomes document	1-16	Four weeks from the date that feedback was provided

Re-assessment notes

Three assessments are required for this module. In all cases re-assessment will be the same as the original assessment. Where you have been referred/deferred for any form of assessment detailed above you will have the opportunity to retake within four weeks from the date that feedback was provided.

If you pass re-assessments taken as a result of deferral, your re-assessment will be treated as it would be if it were your first attempt at the assessment and the overall module mark will not be capped.

If you pass re-assessments taken as a result of referral (i.e. following initial failure in the assessment), the overall module mark will be capped at 50%.

If you fail re-assessments taken as a result of referral (i.e. following initial failure in the assessment), you will be failed in the module. However, another possible programme-specific outcome on failure is:

If the module is part of the PGCert Psychological Therapies Practice (Mental Health and Wellbeing in Specialist Adult Mental Health), you may be permitted to transfer to the Graduate Cert Psychological Therapies Practice (Mental Health and Wellbeing in Specialist Adult Mental Health), providing you have passed all competency assessments, and passed all marked assessments with a mark of 40-49%, in all modules that comprise the programme. If your marks are less than 40% in any module you will be failed in the programme and your registration as a student of the University will be terminated.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

Basic reading:

Bennett-Levy, J., Thwaites, R., Haarhoff, B. & Perry, H. (2015). Experiencing CBT from the inside out: A self-practice/self-reflection workbook for therapists. Guilford.
Farrand, P. (2020). Low-intensity CBT skills and interventions. SAGE.
Silverman, J., Kurtz, S. and Draper, J. (2005). Skills for communicating with patients. Radcliffe.
Papworth, M., Marrinan, T. (2019). Low intensity cognitive behaviour therapy: A practitioner's guide. Sage.
Lovell, K. and Richards, D. (2008). A recovery programme for depression. Rethink.

Wider reading:

Westbrook, D., Kennerley, H., & Kirk, J.?(2007).?An introduction to cognitive behaviour therapy: Skills and applications. SAGE.

Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

ELE – College to provide hyperlink to appropriate pages

Key words search

Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners, MHWP, low intensity, cognitive behavioural therapy, common mental health problems, secondary care, evidence based psychological therapies, clinical competency, care planning

Credit value	20
Module ECTS	10
Module pre-requisites	None
Module co-requisites	PYCM120 Engagement and assessment with people with severe mental health problems and PYCM122 Wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions for severe mental health problems
NQF level (module)	7
Available as distance learning?	No
Origin date	24/03/2022
Last revision date	24/03/2022