This is such a positive development and it's been a long time coming. While many trainees do end up doing their training part time, it's often highly reactive to things like illness or maternity leave, and it's great that a route is being put together that is part time from the ground up. Like Ell s...

I think this is a really good question. When people are starting out, the majority of their experience tends to centre around the "clinical" rather than the broader "psychologist" part of the role, but the reality is that once you are qualified the higher up you go (especially beyond Band 7) the les...

I think it was higher for the course I selected for, but then again it was at a University that was quite well known internationally, so had a fair few candidates who I suspect applied for institutional prestige rather than understanding the nature of a DClinPsy and their own readiness for training.

As posted in another thread, I used to short list. It was in 2015, so may be a bit out of the loop. First, every course has a different emphasis so that plays a part. However, IIRC there was a bit of a hierarchy which roughly went High Tier: Peer reviewed article in high impact top journal (Lancet, ...

Sorry to hear that you are in the situation that you are in. That's a horrible place to be, and it's brave and self-aware to come to the conclusions that you have. Back in the day, I used to hold a seminar with trainees about potential work options outside of the usual NHS Band 7 and upward ladder, ...

I am a current trainee, also from a science degree background and a love of playing with numbers and information, although I can't profess to have the same level of skill. I have found that my interest in using data to improve services has not been shared by other trainees, who are much more intere...

I know that getting onto the doctoral training program is incredibly competitive, so I have a couple of questions: - At the moment, I'm focussing on getting clinical work experience – working as an HCA now and intending to apply for AP positions as soon as I am close to the end of my conversion deg...

It is dispiriting watching other people progressing in their careers and meeting life’s milestones such as buying houses and having children – both of which require job security and a good income to do – whilst you linger in low paid jobs for a very long time with no real chance of progression apar...

Over the years I've learned that academic success means nothing in the clinical world, and real respect has to be earned at a personal level in each new job irrespective of your job title or seniority. Amen. I recall one CMHT I was working in, where it was a really charismatic, caring and intellige...

In he teams I have worked in it’s been fairly standard, but applied to a range of professionals. So non-qualified would refer to student nurses, HCAs, APs, medical students, technical instructors, or basically anyone who didn’t have the level of autonomy or accountability that comes with being a ful...

By the by point: In my view Clinical Psychology owes its success and predominance partly to the disillusion that courses are instilling on their graduates that they are expects, know everything, they are the better than all the other applied psychologists, etc, so be mindful of that! In my experien...

In May, the Migration Advisory Committee reviewed the Shortage Occupation List -the jobs where a national shortage is recognised, and therefore priortised for immigration purposes. Interesting, Clinical Psychology is now proposed to be put back onto this list after a decade of being off it. You can ...

My partner doesn't think it is worth my time pursuing this career option. He has argued that it is too competative, takes too long and ultimatly even if I do get through the training and get qualified, working as a part time psychologist would only bring in, what, around 17-18,000 a year at best? I...

I share some of those fears too, especially around the rise of the populist right wing, and the disenfranchised. My view is still that we need to adopt a range of approaches to tackle this, and I think breaking down what is happening does help (me and others) with this. I really like this article th...

Likewise the paradox of tolerance I agree with this, but if I recall correctly Popper does mention that rational arguments are a big part of that shutting down intolerance, and not suppressing intolerant utterings without taking into account the public concensus. However, he does also state that yo...