Sorry, I should have been clearer. The "thesis" was made up of several parts (major research, smaller scale research, critical reviews etc, etc) all bound in one and the whole thing was a minimum of 100,000 words. It wasn't just the major research project. Still!! Our major research was a...

Glad its not just me who is confused by the missing information. I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens. Fingers crossed it will all be ok. Yes i received that information about the day too, but thought from previous years there has been more to the interview then just a question an...

Mine was a mixed experienced but on the whole less terrifying than I thought it would be at the time. I made the choice to have a very highly published and academic Medic as my external examiner which I got warned could backfire hugely, but I wanted someone who knew the ins and outs of my client gro...

I'm picking up some here and there, i've marked them either 'done' above, or highlighted where it is outside my expertise/too big for me to tackle in the 5-10 min blocks i'm finding here and there in my day I'll continue on informally.

If there are additional health/wellbeing concerns to be aware of I would note them down so that even if they don't need immediate adjustments, you can always refer back to them. For example if you were someone who got very fatigued with a condition sometimes and would need an occasional part time sc...

BlueCat wrote:I love how this is normally distributed

Apart from those pesky 8+ outliers.. I think we should investigate!

Or, to play devils advocate, they shouldn't be letting people do fully qualified work until they qualify and should postpone the start date until you are HCPC registered - which is what many trusts and organisations say. Also true/possible as an option some trusts take To be willing to pay band 6 i...

The only thing I can suggest is ask your manager to contact your university department head and also other local services which may have had similar experiences, the standard is definitely to stay on band 6 and agenda for change wouldn't allow you to do qualified level work whilst on a band 5, even ...

I also know several people who were still actively (sometimes with a full year to go) enrolled on Masters and even PhD courses when beginning the doctorate.. so it is very much at their discretion .

The therapeutic relationship with nursing staff and with a psychologist are completely different, unless the nurses are doing psychological therapies with the patients. The success of psychological therapy is dependent on the therapeutic relationship, this we know from years and years of evidence. T...

Just to add my recent experience to this thread - not really carrying on from the recent discussions but possibly some interesting info for someone else in the future if they search the thread - continuous service means different things for different parts of your contract. So for redundancy - cont...

Looks like there might still be a few top up doctorates knocking around, for example:

http://www.tees.ac.uk/postgraduate_cour ... op-up).cfm

Hi Magdalena, As Astra said you've now been registered with the HCPC as a clinical (practitioner) psychologist in the UK, so you can apply for qualified jobs. There is no requirement that you have the Dr title to do CP jobs in the UK, it is just that our system gives them on qualification, but there...

For some unknown reason he looked at your avatar, said "Oh xxxx" (where xxxx is a four letter swear word beginning with s) and then wandered off. Unfortunately the s-word has re-entered his vocabulary, after some time off from it. Even worse, he's started dropping his 't's a lot, so he's ...

Our course seemed to email out basically anyone that sent an advert to us, as it took them absolutely minimal effort to hit forward on the email distribution list but was beneficial to us. Just not many people seem to do it!