The University of Sheffield
Prospective Postgraduates

PGCert Clinical Supervision for In-patient and Complex Care Settings

Alex Dewar, postgraduate student in the Department of Psychology

Key facts

  • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • 1 year full-time

Fees and funding

Financial information for postgraduate taught courses

Entry requirements

First level mental health nurse registration (or equivalent professional registration) with at least three years’ post-qualification experience in an acute setting. You must be employed within an appropriate mental health setting to complete the assessments.

English Language Requirements: Overall IELTS 7.0 with 7.0 in Writing and 6.0 in the other components, or equivalent.

Entry requirements for international students

Any questions?

If you'd like to know more about any aspect of our courses, contact us:

Angela Young
T: +44 (0)114 222 6564
E: a.young@sheffield.ac.uk

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About the course

This online course is aimed at senior nurses and other multidisciplinary mental health professionals working with vulnerable and high-risk groups. It aims to improve your understanding of the principles of good supervisory practice.

Core modules

  • Advancing Supervision Skills I: (fundamentals of effective practice, critical reflections skills, critical review of theoretical models and their application to practice)
  • Advancing Supervision Skills II: (fundamentals of supervision in complex care settings including the emotional impact of the work, ethics, difference and diversity).

Teaching

  • Lectures
  • Seminars
  • Laboratory classes

Assessment

  • Exams
  • Extensive empirical research project

Where your masters can take you

You'll develop the skills and knowledge for all sorts of careers. Many of our graduates continue to PhD level. Others work as research associates and assistant psychologists for employers such as universities and the NHS. Throughout your course, you'll have frequent reviews with your tutor to discuss your learning needs and objectives.

Applying psychology in the real world

Our ongoing collaborative projects with hospitals, mental health care units, the police and prison service, and several leading firms in business and industry will show you how psychology can be applied in the real world.

You'll also benefit from our research excellence. We don't just focus on one or two specialisms – with active researchers in most areas of psychology, we are consistently one of the highest-ranked research departments in the UK.

Our facilities

Whatever your particular interest, we have the facilities. We have extensive facilities for research in health and social psychology. There is also a Clinical Psychology Unit and a laboratory for infancy research.

To give you the right tools for your research, there is a fully equipped neuroscience unit with excellent facilities for brain imaging, neuroanatomy, electrophysiology, behavioural neuroscience and computational neuroscience. We have two small-bore MRI devices and access to the University's fMRI facility for human studies.

The Clinical Psychology Unit

Seventeen academic and clinical staff are involved in wide-ranging research programmes, training and consultancy, working closely with local NHS Trusts.

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You can apply for postgraduate study using our Postgraduate Online Application Form. It is a quick and easy process.

Postgraduate Online Application Form