Our Community of Practice (CoP) is a new group comprised of qualified Clinical Associates in Psychology (CAPs) that work in various services across the East of England region. As a CAP CoP, we meet virtually every 6 weeks with the initial aims of providing peer support during the transition from a training to a qualified post, reflecting on practice and creating a hub of shared recourses.
Driven to establish and develop our role further, we are working alongside the regional CAP steering group to standardise the CAP role across teams and locations, clarify training and career progression opportunities for CAPs and highlighting emerging issues.