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About
Associate Therapists
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Applications
are invited from therapists who are members of a ukcp
organisation, or who are members of the bacp. This is a
psychodynamically orientated clinical group, and your
practice should incorporate the four key ideas of the
unconscious, transference, the drive & repetition.
Because of how lacap
operates its fee structure, you should not
apply if you are
consistently looking for high fees - the average fee
will be around £25.00 net to you.
While some members have a
substantial caseload and ‘earn their living’ from
lacap referrals, this is achieved over time, and would
be over-optimistic to expect.
Typically, you will be
looking to establish a case load of (min)
six to eighteen patients. You will be looking to work
only from lacap onsite in the first six months, and to
maintain that onsite work when taking offsite referrals
to your own rooms after that time. You will probably be
either recently qualified or looking to add on caseload
to an existing practice/ other work.
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You
choose what work you want to receive
Lacap runs a waiting room
policy to manage its internal transactions. The waiting
room is a device that is used to enable therapists to
decline work that they do not want to receive. You are
therefore free to decide your caseload numbers and type
and time of sessions - within the minimum and maximum
limits.
This means that you are
not obliged to accept patients who have asked to be
assessed by you - reassign that case to the waiting
room. Following assessment, should you not want to carry
on meeting with that patient, you can take her off your
list and pass over to the waiting room. You may offer to
receive patients already assessed who are being held in
the waiting room. Lacap may ask you to receive these
patients - but you can always say no.
Effectively, this also
manages patient's unrealistic expectations. If they
insist that they can only be seen at 5am in the morning,
and insist that they want five sessions a week, they can
expect to stay in the waiting room for quite a long
time!
Assessments
You are not obliged to be
part of the assessment programme. If you do not want to
take assessments, you would receive intake by offering
for patients already assessed and in the waiting room.
Obviously, it is unlikely that higher fee work would
arrive in this way.
If you are part of the
assessment programme, your details will be posted online
and your work diary published to show the free hours
that you have available to receive applicant
assessments. You can suspend that front-end profile as
you need to.
Patients can book in with
you directly online, or the administrator will make
bookings in from the other two referral media trails: telephone calls and email
applications.
You can view that
applicants admin record, which always includes a note
of the fee that the patient is proposing, and accept or
decline.
You are asked to complete
a brief report about the assessment meeting. Lacap does
ask that you report the fundamentals of the contract
that you have established with the patient, and to
update us by altering that administration record on each
occasion that details of that contract are renegotiated.
On each occasion, an auto-email is sent to you, the
patient & lacap confirming the new details.
Because
the patient will have selected you on the basis of
whatever transferrential clues she has gathered, and
because your availability suits, an 80% majority of
assessments lead to therapists continuing work with that
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Working
your cases
If you agree, that
patient is added to your casework list, and based on
your report; recurring appointments are set up in your day-to-day appointments diary.
You are asked to maintain
and update your work diary to show all sessions booked
in by you, and to record whether that session was complete, or otherwise the
status of the non-event (cancelled, rescheduled, DNA).
During the course of a
treatment you may want to vary, or have sound clinical
reasons to vary, details of the working contract (timing and frequency, venue and fees
typically). Typically you are the boss, and you will not
pre-agree those decisions with lacap. Lacap will support
all your clinical decisions.
Fees can be renegotiated,
but lacap would not expect significant upward deviations
from its published rates. As lacap itself does update
its rates from time to time, you will be invited to
update your existing caseload if it can be achieved
without detriment to the ongoing treatment.
Lacap does guarantee that
you will receive a minimum net of £13.00 per session.
In the event that you did have to revise fees below that
net rate because of unemployment or other event, lacap
will directly reimburse you and top-up to that net rate
of £13.00.
Other functions of the
appointment diary
The appointments diary
has two other functions.
Firstly, it is a tool that allows us to manage
room-bookings. Double-bookings are not permitted in the
system, so your diary effectively blocks other
therapists from using that room and those hours that you
are booked in for.
You can also, then, look
in the overall room diaries to hunt for space for
one-off sessions, and to determine availabilities, times
and days should you want to establish & extend your
existing session hours (open up a new slot).
Secondly, your account to
lacap for the charges that we make is constructed
monthly in arrears from your appointments diary. Each
session booked in carries information about any charges
that you incur to lacap for that meeting. These are room
fees & referral fees.
Are
you independent?
We largely expect you to
be able to independently manage all aspects of your
caseload.
However, you are obviously
supported by veteran therapist management, and lacap is
pleased to be able to offer support, advice and detailed
case-supervision upon your demand. Exceptionally, lacap
may instruct or direct aspects of a particular case if
there is significant cause for intervention.
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