DClinPsy Handbook

Category: Placements

  • North West Reflection Project

    NOTE: This project was previously know as Community Engagement Project for 2021 and 2022 cohorts Overview At the start of their first year of training, each trainee will be allocated an area of the North West to engage with. Although the location of the trainee’s living base will be considered, the decision of which community…

  • 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.…

  • Data storage, information governance and ethics

    Last updated 20/04/23 When collecting data from human participants you need to ensure that the data you collect are handled and stored securely and in accordance with legislative frameworks governing data protection, organisational information governance requirements, and research ethics and governance. The procedure outlined below has been developed with these frameworks in mind, and is…

  • Structure of Teaching and Placements

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

  • Placements Overview

  • Placements: preparation of trainees

    Whilst the quality of available placements needs to be assured, the programme also has a responsibility to assure that the trainees it sends on placement are appropriately prepared and fit to work with the public in the services to which they are being sent. Whilst trainees are carefully supervised, they do offer a clinical service…

  • Placement provision

    Minimum standards Placement providers must be capable of providing: – supervised practice consistent with the standards set out in BPS Accreditation through Partnership Handbook Guidance for Clinical Psychology programmes (p.27-30) enabling the trainees to achieve the learning outcomes set out sections 1 HCPC & BPS accreditation best practice requirements that supervisors attend supervisor training once…

  • Placement planning forms

    The forms below should be used for the relevant placement. Fifth placement planning requirements questionnaire (2020 cohort and earlier) Fifth placement planning action plan (2020 cohort and earlier) Innovative Placement Application Form Innovative Placement Description Form Innovative Placement Values & Practicalities Form Innovative Placements Process Risk Assessment Form for Innovative Placements

  • 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 Development and Implementation Group (PlaDIG)

    The Placement Development and Implementation Group is established to plan and review the provision of practice placements for trainees on the Lancaster University DClinPsy programme. Each year, the trainees on the programme spend more than 50% of their time on practice placements, which are distributed across the North West of England. The Placement Development and…

  • 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…

  • Placement allocation

  • 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…

  • Annual plan

    Although the programme tries to use a set pattern of teaching, this is not always possible. The annual plan is used to track all teaching, meetings, placements, admissions processes, and holidays. The plan, which is updated throughout the year, is available as an Outlook calendar which is shared with all programme staff and trainees. To…

  • 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…

  • Psychological contracts

    What is a Psychological Contract? The most common notion is that it is the implicit promises (expectations and inferences) within relationships. It is a 2-way contract “locking you into the dynamic” (Conway & Briner, 2009). Psychological contracts are encouraged to be established on placement between trainees and their supervisor(s). How is it Established? As it…