This time of year sees us planning and preparing for opening applications to our annual CAT Practitioner training course. We’re excited to announce that we are now open to applications to the course starting this autumn. We will be mailing round a message to all those on our existing contacts list . Please share this with anyone you think may be interested. You can follow this link for details of how to apply and entry criteria.
In addition to our standard pathway, we expect again to have a limited number of places for NHSE funded trainees in the North West and Midlands NHE regions. However this stage we don’t know how many places will be funded this way. To stay informed you can check back to the dedicated page on NHSE funding at this link. We’ll post any updates there. That page also tells you what you or your colleagues need to do to seek approval if you hope to secure NHSE funding. This is usually through your Psychology Professional lead or manager who liaises with the NHSE regional lead for your area.
Each year we ask for feedback about the course from outgoing trainees. Through this the course team can gauge how the training’s been received and also pick up important pointers for maintaining quality. It also helps us to create a wordcloud image to use as we start to advertise for the new intake. To keep this fresh year-on-year, we feed in a sample of the comments shared by the outgoing cohort to an online wordcloud generator. This year we asked it to shape the image generated by the sample of words shared (with permission) by the 2023 – 2025 cohort into the letters C, A and T. It’s always interesting to see how the words fall into these randomly generated designs.
But of course this is based just on a sample of comments. Perhaps the best way to work out if the training is for you is to ask around amongst any CAT colleagues or current trainees. Hopefully they can give you more idea about their experience and realities of the training. There’s also a FAQ’s document available for download which might help answer some of your questions.
We look forward to receiving applications by the deadline of 30th May.
