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Bespoke training for RCT
20th March 2022

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BESPOKE TRAINING PROPOSAL

Introduction to CAT for frontline homelessness staff, Rhondda Cynon Taf Supporting People Team

OVERVIEW

Trainees are frontline support workers working with vulnerable homeless clients, not specifically trained in mental health but have an awareness for Trauma and ACEs.

This proposal is for further delegates, in addition to the 120 delegates in our proposal of August 2021. 

Objectives

•     To gain a basic understanding of the general principles of relational thinking

•     To be able to recognise and describe the common ways that people affected by homelessness may relate to others and to themselves

•     To be able to recognise common behavioural and emotional patterns of people affected by homelessness

•     To develop a common and accessible way to describe those patterns

•     To gain confidence in knowing how to respond to people’s distress using existing skills and techniques

•     To understand and recognise behaviour-response patterns that are commonly experienced in services

Trainers

Hayden Stothard is a dual registered Learning Disability and Mental Health Nurse and accredited Cognitive Analytic Therapist with ACAT.  Asides from being the director of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Oxfordshire, he also works for the NHS as a senior manager for the Oxfordshire Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Service.  His experience prior to CAMHS has also included community adult mental health and community learning disability services.

Dawn Bagwell-Cox is a registered Mental Health Nurse as well as an accredited supervisor and Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapist.  Since retirement from working full-time in the NHS, Dawn offers private practice and supporting management roles in the NHS.  Her background has included working in CAMHS and Adult Eating Disorder services.

Hayden and Dawn have worked together for many years and have experience of training staff in different settings and offering supervision and consultation to teams and organisations. They are incredibly passionate about what they do and the benefits that can be experienced by not only their patients but also their staff from taking a more reflective and relational approach to their work.

Course Outline

Dawn and Hayden have been preparing an online only CAT introduction course for Healthcare Professionals, which is in its final stages of completion. They are proposing to utilise some of these online modules along with access to the online platform as a basis of learning for your staff to complete in advance of a face-to-face group learning session.

The advantages of using a blended approach like this is that we can train more of your staff at the same time, supporting their shared learning and keeping the momentum of excitement about learning a new approach going. It will also support your staff in getting the most from the face-to-face sessions, having learnt the basics online beforehand. 

Other advantages to the online modules are that staff can learn at a pace that suits them and revisit the content as many times as needed while they have access to the platform. This approach would also have additional savings for you in terms of venue bookings and limiting disruption to your services.

Outline of the training:

1. Focus session with key staff	Either face-to-face or online meeting	An opportunity for Dawn and I to meet with a handful of key staff to learn more about their day-to-day work with the client group. This will help inform our face-to-face teaching in the future.
2. Access granted to online learning	A bespoke introduction video	An introduction video developed for your staff, explaining the the training programme and what they can expect leading up to their face-to-face training day.
	Meet the Tutors:	Meet your tutors, Hayden and Dawn. Learn about their own personal journey with Cognitive Analytic Therapy and their backgrounds and experience.
	Module 1: What does CAT therapy look like?	An overview of Cognitive Analytic Therapy
	Module 2: Theoretical underpinnings of CAT (Optional)	This is an optional module for staff who are interested in understanding more about the theoretical underpinnings of CAT in a little more detail Or We can edit the module to make it lighter for your staff group
	Module 3: Writing in CAT	This module is made up of 4 parts:   Part 1: An introduction to Reformulation Letters Part 2: A case study (Jack) for staff to read Part 3: A video of the case studies’ Reformulation letter being read Part 4: A downloadable copy of the letter
	Module 4: Relational Thinking with the use of Reciprocal Roles	This module is made up of 2 parts:   Part 1: How reciprocal roles are formed and drawn in clients maps Part 2: The case study, Jack’s map being co-created in a session by Hayden and Dawn
	Module 5: Understanding relational patterns: Traps, Dilemmas and Snags	This module explains the use of the Psychotherapy File, which outlines common relational patterns that can occur in our clients.   At the end of the module, staff are asked to download a copy of the Psychotherapy File and complete it for themselves in order to become more familiar with it.
	Module 6: Understanding the ‘push and pull’ of working with clients	This module will explore the transference and countertransference that could potentially be experienced by staff when working with the case study (Jack) that they have been following throughout the online training.
	Bespoke ending video	A video recapping what they have covered in the online modules and explaining how we will use this learning with them in their face-to-face teaching session.
3. Face-to-face group learning sessions	Conducted with groups of 15 staff at a time to explore more specifically what relational patterns may come up with their client group, the potential push and pulls and how they as individuals and as a wider service might respond.	The teaching day would be broken down into two parts.   Part 1: A brief recapping of relational thinking (reciprocal roles) and confidentiality in the group settings
3. Face-to-face group learning sessions continued		Part 2: This will be focussed on using the consultation model in CAT, where staff are invited to talk about real life examples and as a group, we would create a relational map to help them thinking about the client. We would ask staff where they feel comfortable to share what they learnt about themselves from completing the Psychotherapy File and then think about the interaction with the patients map we had created too.   This will help them to consider how they are able to respond to their clients by adapting their approach and using their existing skills.

 

All staff would have access to the online course.  Once staff have completed the modules they can book onto one day face to face training (where more than one cohort dates to be concurrent, dates to be agreed, these will be held in 2022).

A  Price for additional 15 delegates: 

1 cohort of 1 day’ face to face training to be held March 2022 at £1,100

15 staff @ £85 for access to online learning modules = £1,275

Travel and subsistence = £500

Total for one cohort of 15 delegates: £2,875

B  Price for additional 60 delegates: 

4 cohorts of 1 day’ face to face training to be held April 2022 at £1,100 per day = £4,400

55 staff @ £85 for access to online learning modules = £4,675

Travel and subsistence = £1,250

Total for four cohorts of 10-15 delegates: £10,325

This quotation is valid for 30 days.

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