Formal Competency Assessment for OMF Trainees

Please note: at the moment we are offering assessment to trainees on the OMF Training Pathway only. Before you submit your teaching for assessment, please contact the administrator at mbi.tacadmin@oxfordmindfulness.org to enquire whether we currently have capacity to assess your teaching.

MBCT Teacher Competency Assessment - Guidance for Submission

Please do not submit for MBI:TAC assessment until you have read all the guidance in this link. This handbook includes guidance for documents which support this application.

You need to have recorded yourself teaching before you submit an application. Please see the above link for guidance on recording and the consent forms required. If you do not have the correct recordings or consents we will not be able to process your application for MBCT Teaching Competency Assessment. If you submit an incomplete or incorrect application you will be charged an administrative and processing fee of £50. Please do contact us with any queries in advance of submission at mbi.tacadmin@oxfordmindfulness.org.

Please note that the application fee is not refundable once the assessment process has begun. The fee is not to issue a certificate of competence but to assess competence levels therefore if you are not assessed as competent the fee is not refundable.

Fees & availability

Competency Assessment Fee: £595.00

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Reasons for applying for competency assessment

Please state your reasons for applying for competency assessment at this point

Please confirm that your supervisor supports this application.

Pre-requisites

Please give evidence that you fulfil the pre-requisites set out in the MBCT training pathway.

Pre-requisite One: An experiential understanding of mindfulness through personal mindfulness practice. This would normally be for at least a year before entering the training pathway. Please give evidence of your ongoing personal mindfulness practice. Please include both informal and formal practice, including frequency, length and forms of formal practice (eg body scan, sitting; movement)

Pre-requisite Two: Participation in a structured 8-week MBCT course as a participant - Participation in a structured 8-week MBCT program as a participant. This is to understand the program experientially, including having used the core mindfulness practices that are taught in MBCT. Please give details of any MBCT course you have attended as a participant, including dates, length of course, the name of the teacher(s) and where the course took place

Pre-requisite Three: Knowledge and key competencies to deliver a structured therapeutic approach The knowledge and key competencies to deliver a structured therapeutic approach. This would normally include a (professional) qualification(s) that enables you to teach MBCT with the target population and in the context in which you plan to teach safely and effectively. For example, for MBCT for depression a professional degree in one of the mental health disciplines that qualifies you for clinical practice. This would include the use of structured, evidence-based therapeutic approaches to mental health (e.g., cognitive-behavioral therapy), the knowledge / skills to work with clinical populations and the knowledge/skills to identify and manage risk. If you are interested in teaching MBCT to other populations and/or in non-clinical contexts an evaluation of the fit of your educational and vocational background with the intended population/context will be required. This may require additional training alongside the training pathway, for example in ethics and safeguarding/risk assessment and management.

Pre-requisite Four: Knowledge and experience of the population to which MBCT will be delivered Knowledge and experience of the population to which MBCT will be delivered, including experience of teaching, therapeutic, or other care provision.

Pre-requisite Five: Skills to work with individuals and groups

MBCT Foundational / basic teacher training or other teacher training (e.g. a Master’s course)

Please give details of any MBCT teacher training you have attended. First please list the name of the organisation where you participated in the training(s) and the dates

The name of the teacher(s)

Where the training took place.

Mindfulness experiential retreats

Please give details of any teacher-led silent residential mindfulness retreats you have attended, including dates

The name of the teacher(s)

Where the retreat took place.

MBCT Apprenticeship teaching with supervision

Apprenticeship. Please give details of any MBCT courses that you have taught as an apprentice, including: dates

The population you were teaching

Where the course took place

The name of a co-teacher if relevant.

Do you have any other mindfulness teaching experience? If so, please give details.

Have you been using the MBI-TAC as a reflective tool during your teaching? If so, please describe how this may have supported your development as a teacher.

Supervision

Please give details of your supervision arrangements, including:
The name of your supervisor:

The number of supervisions per MBCT course you teach:

Has your supervision included use of the MBI-TAC as a formative tool:

Please provide your supervisor email address:

Do you give permission for your supervisor to be contacted if there are any queries we would like to discuss with them around your application:

Other

If you are teaching within the UK, do you meet the BAMBA (British Association for Mindfulness-based Approaches) Good Practice Guidelines for teaching mindfulness based courses?

Is there anything else you would like us to know?

Recordings of you teaching a recent 8-week MBCT course

It is your responsibility to send us recordings in which you are visible and both you and your participants are audible. Recordings which do not meet these criteria cannot be assessed.

There are various ways you can share your recordings with us. Further details are in the handbook "Applying for an Assessment of Competency to Teach MBCT for NHS Talking Therapies Trainees".

If you are able to share your recordings via our secure cloud storage platform, please contact the Competency Assessment administrator at mbi.tacadmin@oxfordmindfulness.org to arrange this.

Or you can post them on a memory stick to:
OMF Competency Assessment, PO Box 228, BANGOR, LL57 9EU.
We strongly recommend that you keep your own copies and that you use a secure delivery service or courier.

If your Trust's Information Governance requirements do not allow either of the above methods, please contact the Competency Assessment administrator to arrange an alternative method.

Your fee will be refunded minus a processing fee of £50. To proceed you must have the consent of all of your course participants. Do you have this consent?

Please tick this box to confirm you understand these requirements.

Please tick this box to confirm you have sent in your recordings.

Documents to be uploaded

Please upload each of the following documents to accompany your assessment:
It is important that you press the 'upload' button for each file.

Timeline for each session.

Therapist's Confirmation of Consent to Recording form (Appendix 2)

One page explaining your teaching context.

A reflective commentary on your experience of teaching the course

Additional questions

Have you and your participants given their consent for these videos to be used for training new assessors?

Terms & Conditions

Terms & conditions, including policies and procedures, articulate and provide clarity for the relationships we have with those who engage with the OMF. Please ensure you have read and understood the policies and procedures relevant to your engagement with the OMF before you apply. Links to our policies and procedures can be found here

Please tick to confirm you have read, understood and agree to the terms and conditions detailed the below policies:
P1 – OMF General Terms and Conditions
P8 – Data Protection Policy
By proceeding to submit your application to the OMF, you confirm that all the information you have provided is accurate and you agree to our terms and conditions. Please tick this box to provide an electronic signature to confirm you understand and would like to proceed (you will not be able to edit your application form once you click to submit.)

If a payment is due, you will be taken to an external page to make your payment, operated by Secure Trading Ltd.

Also by ticking this box, you confirm that you understand the relationship you enter with the OMF shall be governed by and in accordance with the laws of England and Wales.

To protect confidentiality, copyright and comply with GDPR, I agree not to record, screenshot or capture data in any form (written, images, fellow participants comments, images etc) during my attendance at any OMF event. Please request consent from the OMF if I would like to capture / record information in any form.

I confirm understanding and agreement to OMF terms and conditions as detailed above.

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