Certificate in Intersectional Competence

This training includes a range of learning formats including teaching by the tutors, group discussion, working in smaller groups and experiential skills practice.

Course overview:

Comprehensive written materials and a reading list will be provided to accompany each module. This is an adult learning environment, where each participant’s lived experience will be respected, along with their work context and therapy setting or client group. We expect that this programme will involve high support and high challenge around this evocative topic, in line with the way The Grove runs our courses for maximum learning and wisdom within the group.

This course intentionally covers all protected characteristics in the Equality Act:

  • Age
  • Disability
  • Race
  • Religion or belief
  • Sex and sexual orientation
  • Gender reassignment
  • Marriage and civil partnership
  • Pregnancy and maternity

About this course

  • Course Duration:8 days
  • Next intake:Spring 2024
  • CPD Value:50 Hours
  • Level:Certificate
  • Fee:£1,500 + VAT
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Intersectional competence CPD

This course has been designed for therapists and allied professionals who wish to explore ways of developing greater competence in acknowledging and working with difference in their therapeutic setting.

Intersectional competence training

Meet the trainers

The course will be taught by a number of facilitators, led by Dr Roberta Babb who has designed this training. There will be multiple voices bring to life the importance of lived experience in the formation of intersectional identity.

Dr Roberta Babb

Director and owner of Third Eye Psychology

Dr Roberta Babb (BSc Hons, MSc, DClinPsych, CPsychol CSci AFBPsS).

The programme will offer attendees an opportunity for attendees to:

  • Learn about a range of intersectional identities.
  • Reflect upon their own intersectional identity and position.
  • Understand the link between marginalised intersectional identities and trauma.
  • Understand, and value the strengths of marginalised intersectional identities.
  • Understand, and value the strengths of marginalised intersectional identities.
  • Develop Intersectionally-competent clinical formulations.
  • Explore appropriate and reasonable adaptations in clinical Practice.
  • Role as practitioners in tackling stigma and discrimination.

This training addresses all the protected characteristics in the UK’s Equality Act 2010. Among other things, this legislation requires us to act in accordance with the desirability of reducing socio-economic inequalities; to be aware of discrimination and harassment related to certain personal characteristics; to enable certain employers to be required to publish information about the differences in pay between male and female employees; to prohibit victimisation; to show regard to eliminating discrimination; to increase equality of opportunity. There are certain protected characteristics within this legislation which chime with therapists’ obligations about providing clients with access to non-discriminatory therapy services.

This course covers protected characteristics specifically:

  • Age
  • Disability
  • Gender reassignment
  • Marriage and civil partnership
  • Pregnancy and maternity
  • Race
  • Religion or belief
  • Sex and sexual orientation

The CPD certificate will be awarded upon successful completion of the course.

This short course will be taught in Spring 2024.

Dates are being finalised. Please register your interest by using the enquiry button, so we can contact you as soon as dates are announced.

Times each day:

10am – 4:30pm

The fee for Spring 2024 is £1,500 + VAT = £1,800.

The course fee includes all training materials and the CPD certificate.

After paying the deposit of £300 including VAT, the remainder of the fee can be paid by instalments as indicated on the invoice. Some reduced-fee places may be awarded depending on student circumstances, subject to availability. The course fee can also be invoiced fully or partially to an employer or funding organisation.

The total fee is payable by 6 weeks before the final weekend of the training course. The Grove is also happy to invoice all or part of the fee to an employer or organisation which is providing funding. Please contact us for details or to discuss a payment plan.

Application criteria

Applicants are expected to be qualified and experienced professionals in a mental health or helping profession, who are established in their practice. This will be covered in the application form. All applicants are expected to:

  • be qualified and experienced in their field
  • be full members of their professional body with a code of ethics and complaint procedure for public protection (such as but not limited to BACP, UKCP, COSRT, BPS, AHPP, NCP, NCS, ACC)
  • hold professional liability insurance
  • have supervision arrangements in place for their client work as well as access to support for any clinical or organisation practice they undertake during the course

Professional standards

The Grove Practice is accredited by NCIP (National Council for Integrative Psychotherapists) as a CPD training centre. As such, all The Grove’s courses are awarded NCIP accreditation for CPD (Continuous Professional Development).

This accreditation provides reassurance regarding high standards of teaching and course content.

The Grove’s courses have been successfully recognised as CPD for members of the following membership bodies: BACP, UKCP, COSRT, NCIP, NCPS, AHPP, BPS, among others. Organisations such as Relate and MIND and Place2B have also supported their therapists in taking training with The Grove. This is a mark of unofficial validation of our courses as worthy of being listed on the CPD logs for these members and organisations.

This course is taught at Level 5 equivalence. This training is a post-qualification course designed for mature professionals who are established in their way of working according to their original therapy training and who are drawn to learning more theory and practical skills for greater intersectional awareness and competence in their therapeutic practice . The designation “Level 5” is drawn from the numbered educational levels according to Ofqual’s Regulated Qualification Framework operating in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. (Scotland has its own educational levels in place.) This is a post-qualification training which requires theoretical evaluation, self-reflection, and interpretation of how to apply the models in therapeutic settings such as clinical practice or multi-disciplinary teams in organisations. The Grove is setting its own courses at a training level in line with industry-wide language for setting the academic level of the course.

Our guidance to anyone researching CPD courses is to ask any training provider offering an Ofqual-regulated qualification at a particular  Level to provide the Ofqual qualification number (which looks like this 601/8674/4). If the training provider cannot give this information for their course, then the course is unlikely to be allocated an official Level by Ofqual. In our view, any other course provider should state that their course is taught “at a level equivalent to Level x but is not a qualification regulated by Ofqual”. This approach is implemented by The Grove.

About this course

  • Course Duration:8 days
  • Next intake:Spring 2024
  • CPD Value:50 Hours
  • Level:Certificate
  • Fee:£1,500 + VAT
Apply
Do you have a question? Get in touch with a member of the team who will be happy to help

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