For UKCP training organisations
A placement that pays your trainees.
Hora offers employed, well-governed placements to advanced UKCP trainees. We’d welcome the chance to be considered as a placement provider for your trainees, here’s how we work, and how to approve us.
Why Hora exists
A placement should add to a training, not take from it.
Training as a psychotherapist in this country can cost upwards of £60,000, and a placement should not add to that. Much of low-cost therapy is no longer run by charities: a growing part of it is private, online-only businesses with very low overheads, where the unpaid work of trainees converts into private income.
Across several placements our Clinical Lead saw trainees expected to work for nothing, thin clinical oversight, and supervision that was rarely at the level the work demanded. That troubled us both for the trainees carrying real clinical risk, and for the people sitting in front of them, frequently unaware they were seeing a therapist in training at all.
“Hora is our attempt to do something about that: to lower the barriers to good training, and to give trainees and clients alike a more honest and better-supported experience.”
Why Hora
A placement you can send trainees to with confidence.
Trainees are employed and paid
Employed as workers on PAYE and paid the Real Living Wage for every session, plus rolled-up holiday pay, with Statutory Sick Pay and pension auto-enrolment.
Proper governance
Every client is assessed and risk-screened by a qualified, registered clinician before they are taken on, with a Clinical Lead and a written risk protocol behind every placement.
Admin handled
We complete the placement reports, hour confirmations and sign-offs your institution requires.
How a placement works
A clear, tripartite arrangement.
A trainee applies; we confirm eligibility with you and their primary supervisor.
A placement agreement is signed by the trainee, your organisation and Hora.
Clients are clinically assessed, then choose their therapist from our profiles; the trainee works weekly, online, under their own primary supervisor.
The trainee is paid for every session, supervision hours are logged and corroborated, and we provide the reports, hour confirmations and sign-offs your institution requires.
The essentials
What institutions usually ask.
Trainees arrange and fund their own primary supervisor, who must be UKCP-registered, as UKCP requires. Hora does not sit between a trainee and their supervision, and does not ask a trainee to bring their clinical work anywhere else. We hold every trainee to a ratio of at least one hour of supervision for every six client hours. Trainees log their hours monthly and their primary supervisor corroborates them quarterly. If supervision falls behind the trainee is notified, and if it is not corrected we may pause new client allocations until it is back in balance.
It is shared. The trainee’s own primary supervisor leads clinically, and our Clinical Lead carries organisational responsibility for risk across the service. An information-sharing agreement between the two means both are involved from the outset, so nobody is ever left holding a risk situation on their own.
Every client begins with a paid assessment by a qualified, registered clinician, never by a trainee, and is risk-screened against clear written suitability criteria. Anyone who needs more than a trainee placement can safely offer is signposted to appropriate support and not taken on. A written risk protocol aligned to UKCP expectations sits behind all of this, and we are glad to share it with you.
In our clinical system each client is visible only to their own therapist. Trainees cannot see one another’s clients or notes, and access is configured that way from the outset rather than relying on anyone’s discretion. Hora is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, and every trainee holds their own professional indemnity insurance in addition to ours.
That they are on a UKCP-accredited training, have completed at least 100 supervised client hours, hold or can arrange their own UKCP-registered primary supervisor, are in their own personal therapy with a UKCP-registered therapist, hold their own professional indemnity insurance and have a private space, a suitable device and a stable connection.
Yes. We are happy to work within your institution’s own placement agreement, and glad to complete whatever questionnaire, provider checklist or checks you require. Forward yours and we will complete it. We work only with UKCP-accredited trainings.
Approve Hora
Request our overview & placement pack.
Leave your details and we’ll be in touch with a short overview of Hora and everything you need to review us as a placement provider. We check that the training is UKCP-accredited before we send anything.
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