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ACAT's Administration

The ACAT office, based in Dorchester, Dorset, is normally open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.  On a Monday contact is via email only.

ACAT Administration Manager - Maria Cross

Mondays (via email), Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays – maria.cross@acat.me.uk

Main responsibilities:

• Member of the Council of Management
• Administration management and staffing
• ACAT business function - insurances, data protection, GDPR, contracts, DBS checks, etc
• ACAT’s committees and associated work - Trustees, Council of Management, Training Committee, Exam Board, Ethics Committee, Equality and Diversity, Annual Research meeting
• ACAT’s Annual General Meeting
• Complaints
• Supervisor training
• ACAT’s generic Training Handbook
• Annual conference and CPD, etc, budget approvals
• Website maintenance

 

ACAT Administrator and Exam Board Administrator (accreditations) - Alison Marfell

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays – alison.marfell@acat.me.uk

Main responsibilities:

• Membership - renewals and payments; re-joining and other issues
• CPD events, including Relational Skills Residential
• Accreditation submissions to the ACAT Exam Board, and related issues
• Bespoke training
• Annual Conference – administration lead
• Annual CPD Audit and Psychotherapist Re-Accreditation
• Reformulation
• Online Library
• Copyright Licence
• Private practice and private supervisor listings
• UKCP and HIPC, including registering of newly accredited supervisors
• Social Media and Twitter liaison
• SIGs
• Website maintenance

 

ACAT Financial Administrator and Training Administrator - Louise Barter

Tuesdays, Wednesdays (until 3pm), and Thursdays - louisebarter@acat.me.uk

Main responsibilities:

• ACAT Finance and Accounts
• ACAT bespoke promotional events – financial arrangements
• ACAT Annual Conference – financial arrangements
• Training finance – collection of ACAT fees across all courses, IRRAPT and South London course fees
• Gift Aid
• Expense claims and payments
• Payroll
• Training administration for Skills Case Management, One Year Foundation, DClinPsych embedded Foundation, Practitioner, and IRRAPT
• Collation of marks for all training courses; and Moderator reports
• Registration etc of all new trainees 
• Website maintenance

 

 

Updated November 2019

 

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