Early Intervention for Psychosis (EIP) Workforce Development: IMPORTANT Update on Training in Family Intervention (FI) and CBT for Psychosis training (CBTp) - Actions that now need to be taken by all trusts and providers of EIP Service

1. Family Intervention Training

Following a formal procurement process, the national framework with 10 Family Intervention (FI) training providers is now live. This means trusts are now able to select their preferred training provider and arrange the FI training needed for their EIP teams.

Health Education England has now published the national FI framework. This document provides you with detailed information to support you in choosing a training provider and making contact with them to book places. The training providers offer different opportunities but fundamentally deliver training to support the delivery of NICE concordant care. Further to this, some training providers are offering supervision to support implementation of training and competency development.

View the National FI training framework.

Supervision and backfill

If your chosen training provider does not offer supervision, or offers less than a year’s supervision, HEE will support your trust to provide in-house supervision for up to a year by paying for backfill for the supervisor(s).

Once training places have been taken up, trusts need to submit one invoice for staff backfill before 13 April 2016. Backfill for FI training will only be provided for staff who have completed the training in the 2015/16 financial year. For more information on backfill costs please visit the HEE website. 

Next steps

All trusts providing EIP services should now, as a matter of priority:

1. Select their preferred FI training provider from the approved framework
2. Contact the training provider of your choice to book staff onto a course
3. Notify This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of the number of staff and their role who are accessing the training (please notify us as soon as your numbers are finalised to help us ensure we have procured enough training capacity)
4. Send your trust’s one backfill invoice to Jessica Brook (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 13 April 2015

Please note that training places will be filled by providers on a first come first serve basis.

FI questions

Please direct any training specific queries to your chosen training provider’s contact person. All other queries including training provider capacity can be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

2. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) Training

HEE with other colleagues have identified four different categories of CBTp training:

1. Skills workshops for experienced CBTp practitioner therapists
2. Supervisor training
3. Modular top-up CBTp training
4. A two-year PGDip aimed at, but not exclusive to, therapist with generic CBT skills

The tender process for CBTp training is still underway. The procurement timetable is as below;

Training schedule for the CBTp categories

• Trusts should now be identifying staff for the four categories of CBTp training – ready to book training places as soon as the CBTp framework is released (approx. 19 February)
• Skills update workshops and supervisor training need to be completed by the end of 2015/2016 financial year
• Modular top-ups and PGDip courses will start in the 2016/2017 academic year

Please note that all CBTp training categories have certain prerequisite requirements. These can be discussed and clarified with your preferred provider once the framework has been established.

Next steps

1. Trusts should now be identifying potential staff to access CBTp training and the category of training required
2. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your planned numbers for each CBTp training category
3. As soon as the framework is finalised, contact your preferred training provider to arrange training for your staff
4. Trusts to establish backfill costs for staff on the 2-year part-time PGDip pathway and submit one invoice to HEE before 13 April 2016. For more information, visit the HEE website

If trusts are still in the process of recruiting to their EIP teams, please take into account the additional training places that may be required by future staff.

For more information:

• Visit the HEE website
• Training specific queries should be directed to your chosen training provider’s contact person

For all other queries contact: Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Professional Advisor-Early Intervention Programme, Health Education England; Stewart House | 32 Russell Square | London | WC1B 5DN | T. 07557015514 | E. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.