Category: Learning

  • Use of bookable extra study (BES)

  • A getting started guide: curriculum

    This page is designed to guide you through the key sections of the online handbook which relate to the curriculum. You can use it as an index to read key curriculum related sections of the handbook in a logical sequence. These are core pages – more information is available in the Teaching and Assessment and…

  • Structure of Teaching and Placements

    2021 intake onwards 2020 intake and earlier Brief description and key to strands of teaching

  • Learning and teaching vision

    Our vision We aspire to have a teaching and learning programme where… There is constructive alignment between the assessments undertaken by trainees and the teaching and learning programme. Teaching on the programme should focus on the competencies assessed as part of the training programme, and be aligned to the assessment exercises on the programme. The…

  • Key information about the structure and content of training

    Programme delivery The vast majority of the DClinPsy curriculum is delivered via face-to-face methods at Lancaster University, which will also be the employment base with Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. In-person attendance at both teaching and placements is a requirement. The programme cannot be attended online ‘live’ from a distance due to the…

  • Moodle Virtual Learning Environment

    Moodle is a web based system which the programme uses to post teaching materials and allow trainees to submit assignments. Soon after being registered at the University trainees are able to access the information posted on Moodle relating to their teaching. To access the DClinPsy section of Moodle just click on the link below: https://modules.lancaster.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2503…

  • Peer observation guidelines

    The key elements of the DClinPsy peer & stakeholder observation system are outlined below. This should be used in conjunction with the peer/stakeholder observation feedback sheet. Ethos The peer & stakeholder observation system is based on the idea that anyone can observe anyone else. The aim of observation is to help develop the process of…

  • Trainee working pattern guidance

    Annual leave entitlement This will depend on your length of continuous service but will be at least 27 days a year, plus bank holidays (April to March). If at the start of or during training you accrue five or ten years’ continuous service within the NHS then your annual leave allowance will rise to 29…