Structured interview training: Dates in September 2022

Overview

There are no structured interview training courses scheduled for September 2022.

What does it cost?

There is no charge for this training for home office forces.

Who's it for?

This course is aimed at occupational health advisors, counsellors and other professionals.

To be eligible for this course, you must be a qualified nurse working as an occupational health nurse advisor, carrying out clinical case management, or be a registered counsellor with accredited status with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy or British Association for Psychotherapy.

How will the session be run?

The course is currently delivered on Microsoft Teams.

What if I miss it?

Regular courses are available, subject to your force having adopted this training.

Overview

Psychological surveillance and structured interview training is part of the psychological support programme launched by Oscar Kilo, the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS).

It was designed to help police forces improve the mental health support offered to officers and staff when undertaking structured psychological interviews and preparing reports for employees and management.

Is this course for me?

Structured interview training covers the following areas:

recognising the need for psychological surveillance for high risk roles
explaining the results of a screening report
undertaking a structured interview
recording the results of an initial and follow-up structured interview
demonstrating rational decision making

The training will provide the skills to undertake the interventions in your force or by exception and only in agreement with your force as part of mutual aid.

In order to successfully complete the training, delegates must attend for the full duration of the course.

There will obviously be some occasions when delegates have to leave the training early because of an emergency situation arising during the course.

In these circumstances, we will require the delegate to attend a future course to complete the training.

This is a one-day training course.

These courses regularly take place throughout the year and dates will be supplied directly to forces who have adopted this training.

How to access this training

To be considered for one of these courses, you must firstly contact your force wellbeing lead who may put your name forward. Please note we are unable to accept individual applications for this course.

What previous delegates are saying about this course

It was informative, a great way to change practice and a proactive way for results and reports.

Self assessment has been useful to avoid burnout and compassion fatigue. We can support others in a different way to counselling.

The use of the online screening process and the report produced was very helpful to see and clearly, it has a lot of applications clinically and for research.

Find out more

Go to the psychological and trauma risk management service