Projects

The Psychological Professions Network, South East England (PPN SE) is working on a number of projects with regional and national impact. The project ideas originate from regional interested parties engagement events. 

Here is an overview of our PPN-SE project work:

• A Career Map for the Psychological Professions

Each of the psychological professions has a different training route, and there was no single resource to access career information about the different professions. This can be confusing for those who wish to find out more about the career choices on offer.

In order to address this gap, we have created an interactive career map that uniquely provides an electronic resource to inform career choices for those wishing to join the psychological professions workforce, or those wanting to find out more about the psychological professions. The career map can be found on our website here.

• Widening Participation Project

Professor Margo Ononaiye, led a widening Participation project for the PPN-SE which aimed to ensure ongoing commitment to increasing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) within the psychological professions. 

“I was hearing people doing good work, but there was nobody bringing together all the information and nobody giving a coherent language to what was being done. I felt that something as important as this needs a team behind it and narrative behind it to make it work.” – Professor Margo Ononaiye 

“There are lots of pockets of work being done but to make long lasting change there needs to be more integration into the profession itself with the people who make the decisions taking an active stance.” – Tessa T. Thomas

There were two main outcomes of this project:

1. An Equality, Diversity, Inclusion Resource Bank
2. The EDI Audit Kit
   • Workforce Version
   • Trainee & Student Version
   • Experts by Experience Version

This work culminated in a in-person event at the University of Reading in February 2004.

• Psychologically Informed Crisis Care Project

The PPN-SE commissioned a six month project, drawing on a nationally funded NHSE initiative focussing on mental health crisis care. The purpose of the Psychologically Informed Crisis Project was to author a paper and to continually develop best practice by way of facilitating a Crisis Community of Practice . This community has subsequently been opened up to national colleagues to come together to share best practice and support other Crisis Colleagues. This project was completed in September 2024.

• Practitioners Fellowship Project

PPN-SE commissioned a six month project looking at the newer psychological practitioner roles, specifically Children Wellbeing Practitioners (CWP's), Education Mental Health Practitioner (EMHP's) and Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (MHWP's).

The PPN-SE practitioner fellow, with the support of the PPN-SE core team, produced a report that reviewed the practitioner landscape, gaps and barriers to these roles which helped to inform some subsequent national pieces of work. The fellow also supported the setting up of the Psychological Practitioners Community of Practice.

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