DClinPsy Handbook

Category: Placements

  • A getting started guide: placements

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

  • Structure of Teaching and Placements

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

  • Placements Overview

  • Placement information for supervisors

    For any clinical placements, the Programme Office ensures that all supervisors, once the allocation has been made, are sent the key information such as placement dates and trainee contact details in an email within a week of the programme placement allocation meeting. The key information provided to supervisors will include: – the name of the…

  • Placement documentation and assessment

    Placements are planned so that trainees have the best opportunity to achieve the learning objectives that relate to acquisition of clinical competence, which meet the HCPC’s Standards of Proficiency for Practitioner Psychologists and the standards set out in the BPS Accreditation through Partnership Handbook; Guidance for Clinical Psychology Programme. Placement Contract For each practice placement,…

  • Placement difficulties

    Difficulties on placement fall into three broad categories – concerns expressed by trainees, those expressed by tutors and those expressed by supervisors (these might also include the concerns of other professionals or service users on placement). Although the concerns of all do often overlap, these concerns will be considered separately in the interests of clarity.…

  • Placement availability and selection

    Services within the Northwest area which are considered able to provide successful practice placements are contacted in good time prior to the start of the placement to seek offers of placements. Approaches for placement offers are coordinated with the other two north west programmes who also seek placements within the same geographical area. When a…

  • Criteria for placement failure

    Introduction The criteria for failure reflect the requirements of the profession, as set out in the following standards produced by the regulatory body (Health and Care Professions Council – HCPC) and the professional body (British Psychological Society- BPS): Health and Care Professions Council Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics See document link below Health and Care…

  • 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…

  • Supervisor training

    At Lancaster the DClinPsy programme’s vision for trainees is that they become competent, confident, reflective and reflexive practitioners. Clinical practice placements and supervision play an essential role in this process. Placement supervisors are asked to support trainees in the development of their competencies and skills to a level which will enable trainees, upon completion of…