Thanks for the update. So it seems like the NVQ wasn't essential, and your degree and/or other skills and experiences can be considered equivalent.

They are supposed to check physical copies of passports and other documents, rather than just see copies of them, and they are supposed to do checks to evidence right to live and work in the UK - all of these things are legal obligations on employers. Whether they are willing to postpone these until...

The forum rules are not only pinned to the main "about this forum" section, and referred to in many posts, but they are emailed to every person in the welcome PM. So there is no excuse not to be aware of them.

I'd be surprised if you couldn't get relevant paid work with 5 years of support work after a psychology degree - so you need to get someone to look at how you are tailoring your applications (or do some mock interviews if you were getting interviews but not posts) to see what is going wrong. As to t...

You should probably also get someone more experienced to read one of your applications. You'd be surprised how much distance there can be between what people think they are doing in applications and what others see in them.

Soliciting or providing information about the content of interviews is against the rules of this forum. If you have a specific question or idea, then post it and focus on that. But we exist to level the playing field, and believe in fair selection processes, so we will not provide insider info to ce...

Our forum rules clearly say that soliciting or providing information that is not in the public domain about an interview or selection process is not permitted. It is a form of cheating, and given you have shown your first and second name in your post, and the forum is public and searchable, you run ...

Do you have the right to live and work in the UK without a visa or any restrictions? That's the first barrier, as our country is getting ever more xenophobic and all the rules about this change very soon. Do you have GBC? You won't get an AP post, let alone onto the doctoral courses without it, and ...

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how the experience has prepared you to be a good trainee CP, be reflective and your experience will be every bit as valuable.

Or a good AP, or a good PWP, or rehab assistant, or residential care worker, or whatever you apply for after you get your conversion

elsaar - I'd ask your CP supervisor whether they can incorporate a reference from the nurse you work with the most in what they write about you, or failing that, whether they can provide some content to incorporate and/or help the nurse to ensure she covers everything in a way that will fulfil what ...

Do not put irrelevant jobs into the list of relevant experiences. It shows you can't prioritise the most salient information, which is a critical CP competency. I'd strongly advise against trying to shoehorn in every prior experience into the form as a whole. Nobody shortlisting cares about jobs in ...

If you don't have a year or more of relevant experience (that's full-time equivalent, not a couple of hours per week for a year), this is likely to be a wasted effort given the level of competition. Even with experience the odds are hugely against you, and you'd need to pick your courses well. I'm n...

Yes, please do contribute as this has been a long standing theme of concern on the forum.

I think my reaction is reflective of my general unease with any potential therapeutic input being given "in public" for any and all to see without people really knowing what the situation is/was. I just feel a proper assessment and contained, tailored intervention is a safer option. Perhaps I'm jus...