Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioners provide psychological assessment and interventions support for young people aged 13 to 17 with severe mental health problems.
Youth Intensive Psychological Practitioners are based in inpatient and intensive home treatment services and have an important role in supporting young people towards recovery.
This is a new role currently being piloted across England. The training programme is open to applicants with the right aptitude to learn how to work collaboratively in a mental health team.
You will spend time in both an inpatient and intensive home treatment team as part of your placements.
You will be required to undertake a minimum of 40 hours of clinical supervision.
Once qualified, you’ll spend at least 20 hours a week seeing patients and their parents and carers either in an inpatient setting, clinic, in their own homes.
- Working as an integral part of a multidisciplinary team where you will form collaborative relationships with young people and their families
- You will develop an understanding of the young person’s current difficulties and help to shape their care and recovery
- You will assess and formulate psychologically informed interventions and active risk management, as well as strategies for daily living and self-care
- You will be supervised by and work closely with Clinical Psychologists to support you to deliver high quality, evidence-based interventions
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You could progress to a specialist role in the psychological professions, for example in clinical psychology or cognitive behavioural therapy, or retrain in another mental healthcare professional role such as nursing or the allied health professions.
