New accreditation standards for Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners
The BPS has published new accreditation standards for Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs).
24 August 2023
The BPS has published new accreditation standards for Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs).
MHWPs work alongside multi-disciplinary team members to support the co-ordination of care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
They also deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.
Their work includes working with carers and families as appropriate, to enable connectedness and informal support.
Shared decision-making and interventions will be underpinned by generic therapeutic competences within the NICE recommended interventions for severe mental health problems.
With the standards now live, it is anticipated that the next development for this role will be a registration scheme, similar to the ones offered for Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners and other non-regulated roles in the psychological workforce.
The BPS will shortly be applying to the Professional Standards Authority to register these roles via their accredited registers scheme, and we will keep members up-to-date with progress.