Welcome to the Sheffield Doctorate in Clinical Psychology training programme.
The programme is commissioned by NHS England and is delivered by The University of Sheffield in collaboration with Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and local providers of psychology services. The programme has approval from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). Successful completion of the programme grants its graduates eligibility to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and gain chartered status with the British Psychological Society (BPS). HCPC is the statutory regulator for practitioner psychologists in the UK.
Trainees of the programme are concurrently full-time students at The University of Sheffield and full time employees of Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust (SHSC). The Trust is contracted to undertake duties in respect of NHS employment and professional governance by the commissioning body. Trainees are line managed by university-based, NHS employed staff within the overall structure of Psychological Services, SHSC.
The following pages represent the programme handbook and contain important information about the following aspects of your your training:
General Programme Information
Academic / Teaching Programme
Clinical & Professional Practice
Research
Assessments
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Support for Trainees
Together these pages provide you with most of the information you will need about the processes and procedures which apply during your training.
The programme handbook is updated annually to reflect amendments to procedures and requirements of different training cohorts. In the event of any changes, the handbook issued in the year you commenced your training is the one which applies to you.
Previous versions of the handbook:
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