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Similar to debates within healthcare surrounding responsibilities of assistant practitioners (Wakefield et al., 2010), there has been little clarity regarding how the LICBT psychological therapy practitioner role fits within the wider mental health workforce. However, this is beginning to be addressed through the recent establishment of the Psychological Professions Network (Psychological Professions Network, 2018). Whilst currently non-registered practitioners, professional bodies are now in discussion to establish accreditation criteria to recognise LICBT psychological practitioners as a competency-based and autonomous mental health workforce that make their own treatment decisions. With assistant practitioners or paraprofessionals (Farrand et al., 2009) there is vertical substitution of roles delegated by a professional role higher up the occupational ladder (Nancarrow and Borthwick, 2005). Within the IAPT programme, however, PWPs neither undertake delegated roles nor assist HICBT therapists. The PWP psychological therapy practitioner level role therefore has equal status with that of the HICBT therapist within the stepped care model, with outcomes mutually dependent on both workforces.