APPROVED
PROGRAMMES
JUNE 2015
PiP Approved Programmes
June 2015
CONSOLIDATION AWARD IN SOCIAL WORK
Programme
MSc ASS
Cognitive
Behaviour
Practice
Programme
Details
4 Modules awarding PG Cert
For staff working at levels 1 and 2
within a stepped care model – low
intensity psychological
interventions
Inter-disciplinary module between
MSc ASS
Court Work Skills social work and legal
professionals.
Module
Professional
Requirements
Academic
Credits
4 Modules =
Consolidation
Award
60 credits =
PG Cert
Consolidation
Award
Requirements 2
and 6
20 credits
Inter-disciplinary programme
relevant to social workers working
with service users that are
experiencing mental health
problems and substance misuse
problems.
3 Modules =
Consolidation
Award
60 credits =
PG Cert
QUB
Dr Michael Duffy
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90973298
Email:
michael.duffy@qub.ac.uk
QUB
Dr Karen Winter
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90975965
Email: k.winter@qub.ac.uk
Approved for MSc Applied Studies
or as a stand alone module relevant
to Child Protection.
MSc ASS
Dual Diagnosis
Programme
Location &
Contact Details
QUB
Dr Anne Campbell
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB Tel: 90975990
Email: a.campbell@qub.ac.uk
MSc ASS
Family Therapy &
Systemic
Practice
Programme
(Foundation)
3 Modules at Phase 1
Approved for Phase 1 of Systemic
Practice Pathway in MSc Applied
Social Studies
3 Modules =
Consolidation
Award
60 credits =
PG Cert
3 Modules =
Consolidation
Award
60 credits =
PG Cert
QUB
Ms Suzanne Mooney
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90973641
Email: s.mooney@qub.ac.uk
AFT Approved
See also at Specialist
Award
MSc PD
Initial
Professional
Development
Programme
3 Modules – 2 Core
 Developing Professional/
Interprofessional Practice
 Professional Decision-Making in
Social Work
Agency based in
collaboration with UU
Agency Contact:
(via PiP/PQ Agency
Representatives)
and
1 Optional chosen from:
 Mental Health & Learning
Disability
 Family & Childcare
 Health, Disability & Older
People
 Adults with Complex Needs
Approved for Phase 1 of MSc
Professional Development
Academic Contact:
Dr Judith Mullineux
Programme Co-ordinator
University of Ulster
Tel: 90366554
Email:
jc.mullineux@ulster.ac.uk
MSc PD
PBNI
Consolidation
Pathway
Programme
1 Module for PBNI staff (comprises
PBNI Comprehensive Induction
Programme)
Consolidation
Award
Requirements
2,3 and 4
1 Module for
PBNI staff
(comprises
PBNI
Comprehensive
Induction
Programme)
Agency based in
collaboration with UU
Agency Contact:
Ms Pauline McMillan
Probation Board for NI
Learning and Development
2nd Floor
3 Wellington Court
BALLYMENA
BT43 6EQ
Tel: 25664998
Email:
Pauline.mcmillan@pbni.gsi.g
ov.uk
Academic Contact:
Dr Judith Mullineux
Programme Co-ordinator
University of Ulster
Tel: 90366554
Email:
jc.mullineux@ulster.ac.uk
PiP Approved Programmes
June 2015
SPECIALIST AWARD IN SOCIAL WORK
Programme
MSc ASS
Child Care
Programme
Details
3 Modules awarding Child
Care Award (inc a BAAF
Module)
Approved for Child Care
Pathway of MSc Applied
Social Studies
+
Optional Dissertation
Module
4 Modules awarding PG Dip
MSc ASS
Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy Programme
MSc ASS
Critical Thinking in
Social Work Module
For staff working at levels 3
and above of a stepped
care model. Equips staff to
practice as fully Approved
Cognitive Behaviour
Therapists
2 Modules as part of MSc
Applied Social Studies
Professional
Requirements
3 Modules =
Specialist Award
Location &
Contact Details
Academic
Credits
120 credits =
PG Dip
QUB & BAAF
Professor Stan Houston
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90975117
+
Requirements 4,7,9
of Leadership &
Strategic Award
4 Modules =
Specialist Award
Email: s.houston@qub.ac.uk
60 credits +
cash in PG Dip
= MSc
120 credits =
QUB
PG Dip
Dr Michael Duffy
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90973298
Email:
michael.duffy@qub.ac.uk
Specialist Award
Requirements 1,2
and 4
50 credits at M
level
QUB
Professor Stan Houston
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90975117
Email: s.houston@qub.ac.uk
MSc ASS
Family Therapy &
Systemic Practice
Programme
(Intermediate)
Also see at
Consolidation Award and
Leadership & Strategic
Award
MSc ASS
Mental Health
(Approved Social
Worker) Programme
3 Modules at Phase 2
3 Modules =
Requirements
1,3,4,5,7 and 8 of
Specialist Award
Approved at Phase 2 of
Systemic Practice Pathway
in MSc Applied Social
Studies
60 credits =
PG Dip if PG
Cert from
Foundation
level is cashed
in
QUB
Ms Suzanne Mooney
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90973641
Email:
s.mooney@qub.ac.uk
AFT Approved
3 Modules providing
eligibility for appointment
as an Approved Social
Worker by a HSCT; Full
PiP/PQ Specialist Award
and Post-Graduate Diploma
(120 academic credits)
QUB.
3 Modules =
Specialist Award
Programme based in
collaboration with QUB
Ms Bernadette Hamilton
Programme Co-ordinator
Millennium Community
Outreach Centre
or
400 Springfield Road
60 credits +
BELFAST
cash in PG Dip BT12 7DU
= MSc
Tel: 90900016
Email:
asw.admin@belfasttrust.hsc
ni.net
An additional 60 credits can
be acquired through QUB
or UU to obtain a full MSc.
2 Modules as part of MSc
MSc ASS
Theory & Practice of Applied Social Studies
Social Research
Module
120 credits =
PG Dip
Specialist Award
Requirements 1,2
and 4
50 credits at M
level
QUB
Professor Stan Houston
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90975117
Email: s.houston@qub.ac.uk
MSc PD
Approaches to
Dementia Care
Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
MSc PD
Caring For the
Suicidal Person
Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
MSc PD
Engagement and
Assessment in
Eating Disorders
Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
MSc PD
Methods of
Intervention in
Eating Disorders
Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
Specialist Award
Requirements 3,5
and 9
30 credits at M
Level
Specialist Award
Requirements 6 and
9
20 credits at M
Level
Specialist Award
Requirements 2 and
6
20 credits at M
Level
Specialist Award
Requirements 3 and
6
20 credits at M
Level
UU
Miss Seana Duggan
Tel: 71675016
Email:
s.duggan@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Mr Iain McGowan
Tel: 71375231
Email:
iw.mcgowan@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Dr Derek McLaughlin
Tel: 90368113
Email:
df.mclaughlin@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Dr Derek McLaughlin
Tel: 90368113
Email:
df.mclaughlin@ulster.ac.uk
MSc PD
NI Practice
Teaching
Programme
2 Modules awarding NI
Practice Teacher Award.
2 Modules =
Specialist Award
90 credits at M
level
Programme based in
collaboration with UU
Dr Gerry Heery
Programme Co-ordinator
Practice Teacher Programme
Millennium Community
Outreach Centre
400 Springfield Road
BELFAST
BT12 7DU
Approved at Phase 2 of
MSc Professional
Development at UU
Tel: 90900016
Email:
ciara.mcglinchy@belfasttrust.
hscni.net
MSc PD
PBNI Specialist
Pathway
Programme
3 modules 


Specialist Practice
Interprofessional Practice
Managing & Enabling
Change
PBNI in collaboration with
UU
Completion of all 3
modules = Specialist
Award
Each module = PBNI/UU
30 credit
points
Agency Contact:
Ms Pauline McMillan
Probation Board for NI
Learning and Development
2nd Floor
3 Wellington Court
BALLYMENA
BT43 6EQ
Tel: 25664990
Email:
Pauline.mcmillan@pbni.gsi.g
ov.uk
MSc PD
Reminiscence, Life
Story Work and Life
Review Module
MSc PD
Research Methods
Programme
1 Module which can be
taken as stand-alone or as
part of MSc Professional
Development
Reminiscence Network NI
in collaboration with UU
1 Module at Phase 3
Approved for Phase 3 of
MSc Professional
Development
MSc PD
Restorative
Practices
Programme
2 Core Modules and 1
Optional Module from
choice of 6 awarding PG
Cert in Restorative
Practices
Also see at Leadership &
Strategic Award
or
MSc PD
Specialist Cognitive
Therapy Programme
*(temporarily withdrawn)
4 Core Modules and 2
Optional Modules from
choice of 6 awarding PG
Dip in Restorative Practices
4 Core Modules awarding
PG Dip in Specialist
Cognitive Therapy
2 Specialist Award
Requirements from
1,2,5 and 6
20 credits at M
level
1 Module =
Requirements
1,2,3,4,6 and 7 of
Specialist Award
(Also see Leadership
& Strategic Award)
60 credits at M
level
3 Modules =
Requirements
1,2,3,5,6 and 9 of
Specialist Award
60 credits =
PG Cert
or
6 Modules =
Specialist Award
or
120 credits =
PG Dip
4 modules =
Specialist Award
(Also see Leadership
& Strategic Award)
120 credits at
M level
RNNI
Ms Audrey Lockhart
Tel: 90426825
Email:
lockhart440@btinternet.com
UU
Professor Brian Taylor
Programme Co-ordinator
UUJ
Tel: 90366554
Email: bj.taylor@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Mr Hugh Campbell
Programme Co-ordinator
UU
Tel: 90366183
Email:
ha.campbell@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Ms Aisling Monds-Watson
Programme Co-ordinator
UUM
Tel:71375194
Email:
eas.mondswatson@ulster.ac
.uk
MSc PD
Understandings of
Dementia Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
PG Dip/MSc
Adult Safeguarding
Programme
4 Modules
Specialist Award
Requirements 1, 4
and 6
30 credits at M
Level
Specialist Award
Requirements 1 - 9
90 credits at M
Level
UU
Miss Seana Duggan
Tel: 71675016
Email:
s.duggan@ulster.ac.uk
Agency based in
collaboration with UU
Agency Contact:
(via PiP/PQ Agency
Representatives)
Academic Contact:
Mr Vincent McCauley
University of Ulster
Tel: 7165357
Email:
v.mccauley@ulster.ac.uk
PG Dip/MSc
Counselling and
Therapeutic
Communication
Programme
4 compulsory and 2
optional modules awarding
PG Dip level (with option to
exit at PG Cert level)
Specialist Award
Requirements 1, 4
and 6
120 credits at
PG Dip level
180 credits at
Masters level
UU
Mr Michael McGibbon
Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: 90366719
Email:
m.mcgibbon@ulster.ac.uk
PG Dip/MSc
Psychoanalytic
Observational
Studies Programme
6 assessed modules + 3
formative assessment
modules. Includes weekly
infant/young child
observation sessions
Specialist Award at
PG Dip
120 credits at
PG Dip level
(Approved
with University
of East
London)
See also at Leadership &
Strategic Award
CCAPNI
Ms Gertie Doonan
Course Organiser
Tel: 90566199
Email:
gertrude.doonan@belfasttru
st.hscni.net
4 Modules delivered by
Managing Effective
Practice Programme HSC Leadership Centre
Focus on personal
effectiveness, managing
change, service
improvement
Specialist Award
Requirements 1,3, 7
and 8
Not
academically
Approved
HSC Leadership Centre
Roni McMillan
Course Co-ordinator
Tel: 90644811
Email:
roni.mcmillan@beeches.hsc
ni.net
PiP Approved Programmes
June 2015
LEADERSHIP AND STRATEGIC AWARD IN SOCIAL WORK
Programme
Details
Professional
Requirements
Academic
Credits
MSc ASS
Dissertation Module
Dissertation Module at
Phase 3 of MSc Applied
Social Studies
Dissertation =
Requirements 4,7 and 9
of Leadership &
Strategic Award
60 credits at
M level
MSc ASS
Personal and Public
Involvement (PPI) in
Health and Social
Care in Northern
Ireland Module
1 Module which can be
taken as stand-alone or as
part of the Strategy &
Leadership Pathway
Leadership & Strategic
Award Requirement 9
20 credits
MSc ASS
Strategy &
Leadership
Programme
6 Modules + Dissertation
in Strategy and Leadership
Pathway of MSc Applied
Social Studies
6 Modules + Dissertation 180 credits =
= Leadership and
MSc
Strategic Award
Location &
Contact Details
QUB
Professor John Pinkerton
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90975117
Email: j.pinkerton@qub.ac.uk
QUB
Dr Joe Duffy
Lecturer in Social Work QUB
Tel: 90975909
Email: joe.duffy@qub.ac.uk
QUB
Dr George Wilson
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90971490
Email: g.wilson@qub.ac.uk
MSc ASS
Systemic
Psychotherapy
Programme
4 Modules + Dissertation
in Systemic
Psychotherapy Pathway of
MSc Applied Social
Studies
4 Modules + Dissertation 180 credits =
= Leadership & Strategic MSc
Award
Qualification for Systemic
Psychotherapist
Ms Suzanne Mooney
Programme Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90973641
Email: s.mooney@qub.ac.uk
MSc PD
Research Methods
Programme
1 Module at Phase 3 of
MSc Professional
Development
1 Module = 3
Requirements from
range of 1,2,3,4,5 and 9
of Leadership and
Strategic Award
60 credits at
M level
MSc PD
Restorative
Practices
Programme
6 Core Modules and 2
Optional Modules +
Dissertation in MSc
Restorative Practices
6 Core Modules + 2
Optional Modules if PG
Dip is cashed in =
Specialist Award + 6
additional Specialist
Requirements or 3
Leadership and
Strategic Requirements
at Masters level
180 credits =
MSc
See also Specialist Award
QUB
UU
Professor Brian Taylor
Programme Co-ordinator
UUJ
Tel: 90366554
Email: bj.taylor@ulster.ac.uk
UU
Mr Hugh Campbell
Programme Co-ordinator
Tel: 90366183
Email:
ha.campbell@ulster.ac.uk
1 Core and 2 Research
MSc PD
Specialist Cognitive Modules as final phase of
Therapy Programme MSc Specialist Cognitive
3 Leadership & Strategic
Requirements from 1,2,4
and 5
Therapy
60 credits at
M level or
cash in PG
Dip = MSc
*Temporarily withdrawn
UU
Ms Aisling Monds-Watson
Programme Co-ordinator
UU
Tel: 71375194
Email:
eas.mondswatson@ulster.ac.uk
MSc PD
Strategic Issues in
Dementia Care
Module
1 Module as part of MSc
Professional Development
PG Dip/MSc
Counselling &
Therapeutic
Communication
Programme
Dissertation as final phase
of MSc
See also at Specialist
Award
Leadership & Strategic
Award Requirement 2
15 credits at
M Level
UU
Miss Seana Duggan
Tel: 71675016
Email: s.duggan@ulster.ac.uk
Leadership & Strategic
Requirements 3,4 and 5
PG Dip + MSc UU
= 180 credits
Dr Maggie Long
Programme Co-ordinator(A)
Tel: 90366975
Email: m.long@ulster.ac.uk
PG Dip – Leadership &
Strategic Award
Requirements 1, 2, 5, 6,
7 and 8
PG Dip/MSc
Inter professional
Health & Social Care
Management
Programme
6 Modules and
Dissertation
(Candidates can exit at PG
Dip stage)
PG Dip/MSc
Psychoanalytic
Observational
Studies Programme
Dissertation as final stage
of MSc
3 Leadership & Strategic
Award Requirements
from 1,2,3 and 5
PG Dip + MSc CCAPNI
= 180 credits
Ms Gertie Doonan
Course Organiser
Tel: 90566199
Email:
gertrude.doonan@belfasttrust.
hscni.net
6 Modules at PG Dip,
validated by UU as
pathway to progress to
Dissertation for MPA or
MSc Professional
Development
6 Modules =
Requirements 1,3,4,6,7
and 8 of Leadership &
Strategic Award
120 credits =
PG Dip
MSc - Leadership &
Strategic Award
Requirements
1–9
See also at Specialist
Award level
PG Dip
Health & Social Care
Management
Programme
180 Credits at QUB/HSC Leadership Centre
MSc level
Dr Melissa McCullough
Course Co-ordinator
QUB
Tel: 90971455
Email:
m.mccullough@qub.ac.uk
HSC Leadership Centre
Margaret Murray
Course Co-ordinator
Tel: 9064 4811
Email:
margaret.murray@leadership.hsc
ni.net