Specialist Interventions: Competencies

These competencies will help you identify a combination of skills, knowledge, behaviours and attributes that will support effective practice at this level.

People providing specialist interventions will:

  • Have the ability to undertake a comprehensive and co-produced assessment of needs and knowledge of evidence-based interventions that are matched to these and be able to deliver evidence-based interventions in a compassionate, collaborative and person-centred way
  • Understand the psychosocial determinants of psychological and mental health and the central role of social inequity in the development of mental health difficulties
  • Support individuals to evaluate their own outcomes using wellbeing measures, goal-based outcomes, and satisfaction measures
  • Be able to develop a psychological formulation to explain current distress and functional difficulties which draws on trauma and psychological theory and considers trauma-specific, lifespan, neurobiological, physical health, developmental, gender-specific and cultural factors
  • Support training, supervision and consultation at the community level
  • Be able to support those without a health or clinical background to develop trauma-informed approaches.