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HEA4800 Promoting integration and collaboration for mental health

Overview

This module is not open to applications for 2024/2025 academic year.

This 20-credit level 7 postgraduate module will support you to develop critical perspectives on integration and collaboration, and to understand the evidence based presentation for people with a mental health condition.  You will be supported to critically appraise the literature, considering preventative methods that aim to reduce significant health inequalities in mental health services access and provision.  In addition, you will be encouraged to bridge the practice-theory gap, linking concepts to practice/clinical settings, that transverse primary, secondary and tertiary care.

This module acknowledges the range of clinical experience and demographics of the students by considering a breadth of contexts within the delivery and content thus enabling students to tailor the formative and summative assessments to their role within mental health care.

This module aligns to the wider NHS Drivers:

  1. The NHS Long Term Plan, NHS 2023
  2. Multi-professional Framework for Advanced Clinical Practice, (HEE 2017)
  3. The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20-2023/24 (NHS England, 2019)
Module code:HEA4800
Level:7
Module credits:20
Cost for new students:£1000 for 2024/25 academic year

If you are an existing student who is undertaking this module as part of a programme, your module fee will have been advised to you by email.  Any queries on fees to [email protected]

If your tuition fee is being paid by a sponsor or you are a sponsor paying a student’s fee, you are required to send a copy of a purchase order to [email protected].

For further guidance please visit: Sponsored students – Edge Hill University

Who is this module for?

The criteria for entry to the module on a stand-alone and programme applicant basis:

  • is a member of a Professional Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB)
  • typically has a lower second-class honours degree or above in a relevant healthcare related subject (applicants with a third-class honours degree classification and/or a relevant Diploma in Healthcare with adequate clinical experience will be considered on a case by case basis as per university guidance);
  • has the ability to study at level 7 (post graduate study);
  • has clinical experience at application that evidences their ability to undertake this module, for example, working in a clinical area with access to patients/clients with mental health presentations. This would include primary, secondary and tertiary health and social care services.

This module is appropriate for all members of the multi-disciplinary team including (but not limited to) Nurses, Doctors, Pharmacists and Allied Health Professionals.

What are the key aims of the module?

The strategic vision within the NHS Long Term Plan (2023) is that new integrated primary and community mental health services that are place-based, will support the reduction of this significant inequality. This requires deeper consideration of what is required from staff and teams, to support development of these new ways of working, the content of which is included in this module.  The module is driven by The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20-2023/24 (NHS England, 2019:3), which state that there is ‘still a lot of work to do to provide quality and timely mental health care for everyone who needs it, and to tackle inequalities in access, experience and outcomes’.  The Health and Care Bill 2021 to 2022 (Powell et al, 2021) supports the proposals for integrated care, and highlights the importance of joined-up working / collaborative care.  This module will provide you with in depth knowledge and understanding to bridge the gap in service provision.  You will develop skills in collaborative working, that traverses many allied health professions and clinical contexts.  This will further enhance individual student attributes, behaviours for integration, and increase in self-awareness, thus supporting the holistic patient journey.  The content of this module aims to contribute in the reduction of early death statistics, by educating clinical staff from various clinical contexts, using a significant evidence base, also increasing staff skill and future employability (developing graduate attributes for advancing practice).

How will I study?

The module will be delivered using a blended approach, to allow students outside of the typical EHU ‘catchment area’, to undertake the module.To facilitate engagement by health and social care staff, the module will be delivered by 3 x 4 hour in-person workshops, over a period of 3 months, alongside asynchronous online learning.

What will I study?

  • Integrated Care Teams context and policy
  • Collaborative working across service provision
  • Communication across boundaries
  • Link between theory and practice
  • Holistic adult mental health care
  • Health inequalities and co-morbidities
  • Leadership for collaboration
  • Well-being and mental illness prevention
  • Personalised care
  • Critical reflection and reflective writing

How will I be assessed?

This authentic assessment incorporates critical reflection on a real-life learning situation. You will undertake a critical reflection in the form of a 4000 word case study exploring  existing service/role where teamwork and integration could be improved, incorporating critical examination or reflection from your own clinical practice areas.

On successful completion you will:

  • Critically examine the influences that impact on social, cultural and economic determinants, that shape adult mental health service user engagement and experience.
  • Critically synthesise the benefits and challenges of collaborative working within integrated care systems, considering preventative actions that can impact mental health inequalities.
  • Critically reflect on your own responsibilities in relation to developing behaviours and impacting culture that influence integrated working, within your own context and role.

How to apply

Module availability varies from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Due to the popularity of some modules, it may be that the module is fully booked when your application is received. We will include your details on a waiting list and allocate you a place on the next available intake

We encourage you to apply as early as possible to give you the best chance to obtain a place on your preferred cohort, module applications will close as soon as the module is full. Applications received within two weeks of the start date may have to be considered for a later cohort.

For more details of how to apply, please visit the apply page.

Contact us

For further information on module content or an informal discission please contact the Module Lead, Andi McGuinness via email or alternatively, you can contact the School office via email on: [email protected]

Pathways

This module can be taken as a standalone or can be incorporated into a wider MSc Pathway for example: Advanced Clinical Practice or the MSc Clinical Professional Development.

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