Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.17
C. Baguley, Liza Kell, G. Bhutani
The Psychological Professions have undergone unprecedented workforce expansion in recent years. Growth of the new role of psychological wellbeing practitioner, provides us with an opportunity to learn about the factors that underpin successful implementation of the growing family of additional new psychological practitioner roles and consider what workforce and education development issues need attention in order to allow the psychological practitioners to grow and flourish with sustainability.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.33
Molly Webster, Susan M. Adams
We are reporting on a project using HEE funding to increase diversity in the Clinical Psychology workforce by offering Paid Clinical Experiences as Assistant Psychologists for those people with underrepresented characteristics. The project used a Quality Improvement approach to examine drivers of a lack of representation and devise interventions addressing barriers to inclusive recruitment. The project successfully recruited to 5 placements. The project did recruit those with characteristics that are currently under-represented in our workforce and for all it was their first paid position in a psychological field. Applicants and supervisors working with successful PE Assistants agreed the changed recruitment procedures made for a more positive, inclusive experience. Supervisors felt that the PE Assistants made a positive contribution to the workplace and service user care, although some may need more support than those ‘regularly recruited’. The learning for the project is being incorporated into a good recruitment guide for use internally in the trust psychological services. The importance of funding like this to increase diversity in the psychological services workforce is discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.40
Becky Malone, T. Gandhi, J. Quinn, K. Palmer
Assistant psychologists (AP) are a vital resource in busy clinical psychology services. This article summarises a review of an innovative programme designed to support APs to develop their skills and knowledge in line with their career aspirations.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.26
H. Barker, Deepa Mavji, Susanna Payne, Jessica W Richardson
Recent national policy and strategic workforce commissioning has created quality-monitored low intensity working in children and young people’s mental health (CYP-MH), that follows a stepped care model seen in adult services. This study explored the experiences of members of this new workforce to better understand factors that might support the effectiveness and sustainability of the role from a practitioner perspective.Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis was used to analyse (N=12) semi-structured interview transcripts from CYP Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs) in London and the Southeast.Five main themes emerged from analysis, suggesting practitioners value their role and its place within the workforce, but have concerns about the low intensity remit meeting high intensity demands, their professional identity and career progression within the speciality.Low-intensity services provide a welcome addition to CYP-MH services with encouraging outcomes so far. Themes that emerged from practitioner experience highlighted clearly defined service remits, careful integration into existing service provision, and professional recognition with career progression as factors that might support the sustainability of the low intensity CYP-MH workforce.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.8
G. Bhutani, C. Baguley, Liza Kell
The number of psychological professions working in the NHS and publicly funded care is increasing. There are also increases in training places across a range of psychological professions. Despite this, the routes into the psychological professions remain unclear and fragmented. Within the psychological professions, career development is affected by limited transferability, limited opportunity for further training and limited roles at more senior levels across the whole professional group. There is an opportunity to address these to develop a more coherent and consistent approach to the psychological professions to enable a sustainable increase to meet the public demand for psychological help.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.47
Nabiha Ahmad, Zobiya Choudhry, Becky Malone
There is an increasing awareness of the lack of diversity within the Psychology workforce. This article consists of reflections from three assistant psychologists hired on the Health Education England (HEE) funding scheme to increase equality and diversity in the psychology workforce. Here we have reflected on our journey from recruitment; what we have learnt, how we feel about future career aspirations whilst reflecting on our own diversity.
{"title":"Reflections from assistant psychologists on their journey into their current roles and the Health Education England funding scheme","authors":"Nabiha Ahmad, Zobiya Choudhry, Becky Malone","doi":"10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.47","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing awareness of the lack of diversity within the Psychology workforce. This article consists of reflections from three assistant psychologists hired on the Health Education England (HEE) funding scheme to increase equality and diversity in the psychology workforce. Here we have reflected on our journey from recruitment; what we have learnt, how we feel about future career aspirations whilst reflecting on our own diversity.","PeriodicalId":39686,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Psychology Forum","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80318208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.361.64
Debbie L. Blackwell, Dominic McConnell, J. Carson
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.53841/bpscpf.2022.1.360.49
Y. Dandil, K. Theodore, A. Tickell, Roman Raczka
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has led health services to change the way they support people with intellectual disabilities and their carers. Therefore, this novel service evaluation aimed to find out what service users thought about telephone, video or in-person psychology appointments during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Overall, 45 adults with intellectual disabilities and their carers completed our mixed-methods questionnaire. Service users reported that they found video sessions easy and helpful. Despite an overall positive experience of video and telephone psychology input, most service users reported a preference for in-person psychology sessions after the Covid-19 pandemic. However, 27 per cent of service users also reported that they would appreciate flexibility in the modality of therapy delivery, with a preference for both remote and in-person appointments. Therefore, it is recommended that clinicians take a person-centred approach to offering appointments, by ensuring service users are aware of the available options and asking what their preference is. The findings also suggest the importance of ongoing practice-based evidence using accessible measures, whereby service users are involved to gain a broader understanding of experiences of digital technologies in clinical practice. Further research should also ensure that there is a disability-inclusive response to all decisions regarding one’s care and that the best provision of digital mental healthcare is provided to people with intellectual disabilities and their carers.
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