ATA offers regular supervised clinical practice by qualified practitioners for students to develop their skills and confidence in massage and in learning about what it takes to be a ‘professional’ massage therapist.
The supervised clinics will be run regularly throughout the year (see the calendar) and are open to the general public, students and family and friends.
External students that are unable to attend ATA supervised clinics are able to complete their clinical practice through Vocational Placement providing they are supervised by appropriately qualified massage therapists in clinical practice.
Some of the guidelines for Industry Placement are as follows for a full list go to Fact Sheet for Vocational Placements or contact ATA for further information.
- The student must be treated at all times as a student under the supervision of a therapist.
- The training organisation must take out a student workcover insurance (this is really quite cheap).
- Students should have their own professional liability insurance.
- Students must make it known to each client that they are students and that this forms part of their training.
- Each client must sign a form giving consent to being treated by a student and having their case histories submitted for assessment purposes.
- The vocational placement scheme must be registered with DET, because they have to make sure that there are (a) no union issues and (b) the students are not being used as free labour.
Massage Therapy training courses are run reguarly, if you would like to know about upcoming course dates go to the Massage Therapy training course calendar.