IMPROVING ACCESS TO PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPIES (IAPT)
Training Opportunities for practitioners and supervisors
Practitioners
Do you work with children and young people?
Do you have a degree?
If so there are opportunities to improve your practice by training in Systemic Family
Practice and potentially Interpersonal Psychotherapy?
Trainees will need to be released from practice to attend university but there would
some funding to backfill the post. You will be committed to delivering and promoting
the IAPT principles of participation of CYP and parents, and evidence based practice
in your working environment with CYP and parents and with colleagues.
Supervisors
Do you have a recognised post-grad qualification in Systemic Family Practice or
Interpersonal Psychotherapy and 2 years supervisory experience?
If so there are opportunities become an IAPT Supervisor.
Supervisors have a critical role to ensure there is senior management support for the
delivery of the IAPT principles and help to develop the roll out of a culture of
evidence based practice across the service and all staff. During and after training
supervisors will need to fit into established processes and there will be ongoing
routine outcome measures monitoring and feedback to the central IAPT team. You
will have to commit time to supervise trainees, some from other agencies for your
module but there is some funding of backfill for your post.
Newcastle are partners in the North East, Yorkshire and Humber IAPT Programme
and offer staff working in all sectors of the Children's Trust the opportunity to access
the above training. To do this we need to know if there are enough people interested
in accessing the training in Systemic Family Practice, Interpersonal Psychotherapy,
CBT and parenting to make us a viable project. We also need to know if you are
interested in and qualify to, access the supervisors training.
Each Trainee and supervisor will receive the training from Northumbria University
and your organisation will receive a payment to provide cover for while you are
training.
If you are interested and have organisational commitment then you can gather
further information about IAPT at:
www.iapt.nhs.uk/cyp-iapt/
Background
The Children and Young People's (CYP) IAPT Project is a Service
Transformation Project for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHS). The focus of CYP IAPT is on building a more collaborative relationship
between children, young people, families and therapists through use of frequent
outcome monitoring and extending participation in service design and feedback,
extending training to staff and service managers in CAMHS and embedding
evidence based practice across services, making sure that the whole service, not
just the trainee therapists, use session by session outcome monitoring. In
Newcastle the CAMHS covers anyone working with children and families.
CYP IAPT is different to the Adult IAPT programme. CYP IAPT is not creating
new standalone services. Although the CYP IAPT project sits within the overall IAPT
programme, and has learned from the adult experience, it is not the same. It works
with existing services and established local systems. Commissioners of services and
those working in Adult IAPT services may find our Guidance for Working with Under
18s especially useful.
In years one to two, CYP IAPT has supported training in two therapies. The
choice of CBT and Parenting for 3-10 year olds was based on best evidence (NICE)
and the prevalence of emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression and
behavioural problems in children and young people. In year three, CYP IAPT
developed training in evidence based systemic work with families. This year CYP
IAPT are offering the three therapies identified above and may offer training in
evidence based Interpersonal Therapy.
WHAT TO DO NEXT.
1 If you are interested then please talk to your manager and gain their permission
and support to express an interest in applying for a course.
2. Let Trisha Hudson know you are interested in the training, which course and ask
your manager to confirm you have your organisations support.
Make sure you expression of interest is with Trisha by 30th May 2014
If you have any questions please contact Trisha Hudson
(trisha.hudson@newcastle.gov.uk)