PGCert Approved Mental Health Professional Practice

Fees for entry in 2027 have not yet been set. For reference, the fees for the academic year beginning September 2026 were as follows:

• (part-time)
  UK students (per annum): £4,500
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £5,100

The fees quoted above are fully inclusive of tuition, administration and computational costs.

Fees for entry are subject to yearly review. The University reserves the right to increase your tuition fee by up to 7% each year for courses lasting more than one year, including to reflect rising costs associated with delivering our educational and wider student experience. Postgraduate fees information .

Always contact the admissions team if you are unsure which fee applies to your qualification award and method of attendance.

All students should normally be able to complete their programme of study without incurring additional study costs over and above the tuition fee for that programme. Any unavoidable additional compulsory costs totalling more than 1% of the annual home undergraduate fee per annum, regardless of whether the programme in question is undergraduate or postgraduate taught, will be made clear to you at the point of application. Further information can be found in the University's Policy on additional costs incurred by students on undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes (PDF document, 91KB).

The Programme practice requirements are contained in the course handbook and in the practice portfolio guidance, the requirements include that the student has:
 

·         A practice placement which will provide the student with opportunities to meet the required competencies. The student will have regular AMHP supervision from an AMHP, and the student will shadow their Practice Educator and other AMHPs who are undertaking the role.

·         The student will produce a Practice Portfolio, which will contain evidence of how the student has achieved competence in each of the competencies; a Practice Assessor report, direct observations of the students practice by the AMHP, a reflective evaluation of the  student’s learning, a log of all their training and finally a statement from their practice assessor that the student has been deemed competent.

NB. A Practice Portfolio without that statement cannot be passed.

1.  To produce students who have the knowledge and skill to undertake the statutory duties of an “Approved Mental Health Professional” as detailed in the Mental Health Act 1983 and as amended by the 2007 Act.
2. To produce students who have satisfied the competencies  for practice as outlined in Statutory  Instrument ( SI 2008/1206)-The Mental Health (Approved Mental Health Professionals) ( Approval) ( England) Regulations 2008 and the equivalent  Statutory Instrument for Wales.
3. To produce students who have satisfied the AMHP requirements in full as outlined in both the handbook and in the practice portfolio guidance.
4. To ensure that the students are competent and that their appointing Local Authority can approve them to act as Approved Mental Health Professionals.

The Practice Portfolio will be marked as either a pass or fail.

The criteria are that the student is assessed against the competencies as laid out by Social Work England and the statutory requirements.

The Practice Portfolio will be returned to the student if all the requirements are not met within the portfolio.