Join The Team
We are always open to like-minded, talented and committed professionals to bring new perspectives to our team. If you feel you could be an asset to our team and you have the therapeutic skills, training, accreditation (or are actively working towards accreditation) and are able to commit to 5 client sessions per week, we welcome you to get in touch to explore whether we could be a good fit.
Phone: 07754455326
What are the benefits of joining our team as an associate?
It can be a difficult decision to decide whether to join an associate company or whether to go it alone as both of these decisions have advantages and disadvantages. Our team have tried to overcome some of the difficulties we perceive with both of these options to find a balance between them. We asked our group of associates who set out the things they value as part of working with us and came up with the following advantages:
Strategic marketing
To keep things interesting, we seek out diverse and varied referrals from a range of different customers including:
- Private clients
- GPs & healthcare professionals
- Case managers
- Local authorities
- Corporate and start-up companies
- Solicitors, the NHS
- Schools
- Children’s homes
- Mother-and-baby units
We invest time and care into developing and maintaining relationships with our referrers. Meeting their needs and the needs of our clients is our priority.
An informative website
We will market you through our website and other ethical marketing initiatives. We proudly spread the word about our team in many different ways including:
- Blog posts
- Online directories
- Social media
- Letterbox and email campaigns
- Advertising in local magazines
Administration & Contracting
- We triage every referral sent to us which is considered by two people for suitability before referring on to our team members.
- We set up and confirm the referral securely.
- We setup more complex contracts on your behalf, agreeing the terms before you start.
- We provide the practice management systems for you.
- We manage GDPR compliance and information security.
- We have a team of experienced and capable assistant psychologists to support you with assessments and clinical work if you want to use them.
Fees & Finances
- We do the invoicing for you!
- We practice fair and transparent fee structures so when we get more, you get more.
- We commission professional bookkeeping and accountancy services to manage our invoicing on a monthly basis.
Team Collaboration
- We meet for coffee and cake, host away days, and arrange complex case team meetings.
- We donate to charity. A recent donation was to the Red Cross to support those in Turkey and Syria following the earthquake.
- We host Away Days for our team to come together. In our last away away we made mandalas, learned about Theraplay techniques and sensory integration (and had a lovely lunch).
- We provide in-house CPD and pay our associates to provide this.
- We offer opportunities for team work. Several of our team are working jointly on client cases and are funded for their consulting time.
- We offer a team of strong and capable practitioners, all of whom have been recommended to us by people we trust. Each member of the team is asked to work collaboratively with everyone else to consult and share their diverse expertise and offer consultation and support.
- We assign buddies to our team who work with clients who may present with higher risk so that no one therapist is alone in risk management. This means another clinician is there to support you and the client as needed. We also set up and support funded joint working in some cases that require extra help.
Quality Assurance
- All assessment work we offer to our clients is quality assured through review with a second clinician. We offer templates and examples of reports to support you if you need it.
- We host peer forums for reflection and peer supervision of complex cases within a team of practitioners from different professional and therapeutic backgrounds.
- We audit our clinical records intermittently to ensure our associates are offering the best service.
Resources
- We hold a directory of local rooms available for our team’s use and can support the introduction and booking of these rooms.
- We hold a range of resources freely available to our team to borrow including a comprehensive library of psychometric measures and test kits.
- We create and manage a kitbag of policies and procedures on behalf of our team which have been legally ratified
- We provide a fully GDPR-compliant clinical system for our team’s use
Profit Reinvestment
- Much of our profit is reinvested into a wide range of resources based on the feedback of our team, including CPD forums, training days, away days and multidisciplinary peer forums
- We invest in a lower fee service supervised by our senior team. This enables us to contribute both to clients on lower incomes and also to the development of therapists in training.
- As previously mentioned, we donate to charity regularly.
- We support local charities in facilitating support groups as part of our community contribution.
- We offer free supervision to those who offer 10 or more hours of their time per week to our team. We pay the associates within our team to deliver supervision if they are interested in being part of our Supervisors Register.
Send us an email or use our contact form to introduce yourself. Let us know who you are, where you’re based, and how you’d like to work.
Schedule a meeting with one of our senior team at a convenient time to see if we’re a good fit for each other.
Once you’re on board, we’ll help you get started, link you with referrals, promote you on our website, keep you updated with team news, invite you to our training and events, and offer support for your client work. We’re excited for you to join us!