Does the Talking Therapies (IAPT) therapist need to keep their treatment episode open if the Employment Support therapist is still working with a patient?

With Option 2, there is no need to keep the main IAPT referral open whilst the linked employment episode is still ongoing. NHSE will allow employment support contacts to flow through in submissions even after the referral has been closed as long as they are mapped correctly with an appointment purpose of ‘Employment support’ (AppType 10).