I was going to suggest working in an educational setting as well. There is a wheelchair-using clinical psychologist on this forum who has mentioned working in a secure hospital, so she'd be best placed to advise on how feasible hospital work would be, but I don't think it necessarily would be the ca...

I did a PhD and have been successful in finding continuous academic work afterwards, although as Spatch says, these have all been short-term contracts (the three-year fellowship I have now is the longest contract I've held). To take the full-time posts I had to move cities. For the zero hours teachi...

Did any of the trainees or qualified CPs here pick their course based on location rather than ethos? I'd always imagined that if I went for the doctorate I'd be applying based on the course's therapeutic orientation, etc., but it looks as though that may no longer be possible. Although my partner's ...

Today I caught Emma Kenny on TV for the first time. The presenters were encouraging people with depression and anxiety to phone in following the death of Caroline Flack. The first caller was a woman in an abusive relationship who was feeling suicidal. I was expecting people with a mild level of diff...

I was a volunteer with Freedom from Torture. To clarify, I was suggesting that Obti look for a job with them here in the UK (they have CPs and therapists working with refugees in their Manchester and London bases, and possibly in Newcastle as well) as a way to get the relevant experience for oversea...

You could also look for jobs as a research assistant as well as AP posts. Keep an eye on jobs.ac.uk. Most RA roles will require you to be educated to at least Master's level, but occasionally there are some open to BSc graduates. I've also seen some really interesting psychology PhD studentships pop...

I used to work alongside MSF (not as a clinician) and unless things have changed they want you to have some post-qualifying experience in a specialty relevant to the humanitarian field, such as sexual violence, supporting people with HIV/AIDS, etc. They do work with interpreters but they prefer appl...

This is the third time you've posted this question. People made some suggestions to you when you asked before.

I have merged all three threads so the information is easily at hand here - mod

A two-year intensive nursing programme is a financial barrier in itself. If you want a mental health core profession and you need to be earning sooner rather than later, then I'd look at one of the salaried training schemes in social work, Frontline and Think Ahead.

Before you can apply for any of the practitioner doctorates in psychology, you need to have Graduate Basis for Chartership (GBC). This means completing a conversion Master's or postgraduate diploma in psychology that is accredited by the British Psychological Society. Qualifying as a nurse seems lik...

If you put that much effort into medicine you are rewarded. It's really that simple. I have come across too many bright people who should have applied for medicine and not psychology because they deserve their efforts to be rewarded with clear career pathways. It's such a shame that we have wasted ...

Patriarchy and white privilege are given truths. To pretend otherwise is like starting a discussion about the height of a tree by challenging the idea that triangles exist and then expecting to be walked through pythagorus before considering it legit that anyone uses the distance from the base and ...

I'd be happy to help write and update wiki content, to contribute to Aspire, and to signpost new users to helpful material.

Update: I have just discovered that a network of therapists offering free or low-cost treatment already exists, the Free Psychotherapy Network. They rely on individual therapists to volunteer their services, though. I'm going to contact them to see if some fundraising might enable their members to o...

I'm reeling after this election, and frightened, as I expect many of us are. Rather than give into the temptation to bury myself under quilts and cats and not come out for five years, I'm thinking of ways that I could try to make things a bit less awful, at least for some people. I'm thinking of set...