Secondary analysis is very common, you should be able to find some published examples fairly easily I would've thought. The format is essentially the same as any other paper or thesis though. Personally, I like to see the situation made explicit and the main article referred to, it helps to avoid do...

In your trust there'll be a staff 'bank', it may have a different formal name like temporary staffing solutions. It's how staff take on extra shifts and the trust fills gaps, like an internal agency system. Your colleagues should know how you access it. It should be very easy to find support worker ...

Do you think about antecedents, behaviour and consequences/contingencies? When there appears to be a problem could you ask yourself, who is this behaviour a problem for? Where there is a problem that is difficult to manage within the existing team/system, can you advocate for referral to an ID commu...

A bird in the hand is worth...?

Lots of trainees have been PWPs. The experience seems to be considered valuable by selectors. It also gives you an alternative career route to the doctorate.

Have you tried picking up additional AP work in different teams in the same trust, or bank AP work?

I think the role as set out is relevant experience for AP jobs and eventually for DClinPsy. Although I have some reservations about the role, thinking back to when I was applying for AP jobs I'd definitely have considered applying. I expect over-qualification will not be an issue. The bottlenecks in...

I recall feeling a bit of a loose end and being a spare part when I first started my AP role. No login, not familiar with the role and projects that were ongoing. It was especially bad as I overlapped with my predecessor who it appeared knew everything and everyone. The role was somewhat loose and i...

What do you think the utility of a group task is from the selector's perspective? What are they looking for?

Are there other benefits to taking it? I suppose having acted up will stand you well when applying for substantive posts. Is it competitive? if, as must be tempting, you decline, will they easily fill the post anyway? Personally I think it's a petty scam and you should decline to do band 8 work and ...

There's no dilemma here if you want to do a dclinpsy. One masters is totally relevant and improves your chances. The other is barely relevant, possibly even slightly harmful to your chances. I expect the selectors for the anatomy masters would be equally bewildered if you told them you intend to do ...

Yes, it relies on trainee responses. No responses means no inclusion.

Do a value clarification exercise. Reflect on the choices you have made in life and try to unearth the values that underpin those choices. You could complete the VIA Survey of Character Strengths - https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/testcenter and refelct on the results. I agree with hawke...

It's not primarily about nationality, it's about being 'ordinarily resident' and 'settled' according to specific legal definitions for immigration purposes. The fact that you've moved within the EEA is important in that EEA and UK citizens should be treated the same (at the present time) for establi...

I know it is a side issue to the thread but I am confused about the idea that research assistants require a PhD. Could it be a confusion between assistants and research associates?

Places and funding for each cohort are agreed and allocated by the Health Education Regions for the three years, not on a continuing year by year basis. It would be impossible to run any course if funding was in doubt each year. Trainees are given a three year contract. The guarantee linked to by cl...