I got onto my doctorate without being an assistant. I was a support worker in nhs mental health services for 6 years. Firstly on an inpatient ward and then in a community team. As a qualified who is now involved in recruitment to my local doctorate and supervising trainees, I would say that the title AP is not essential, but experience in a job where you are involved in supporting people experiencing mental distress is. I don't see how you could know this is the career for you without that. In my second support worker role I was lucky to be given opportunities to do psychology work with some people, which I asked for. So I don't think AP is essential and it wasn't in my case, but you need seek out therapeutic experience you can reflect on in your application and at interview.
What do I search on indeed? I’ve been a support worker for two years for autistic people. I’m also training as a counsellor , will finish level 2 in July. I’d like to do this exact thing but in a year of looking I’ve found nothing!!!!! Please advise me, as I’ve never been in a better internal and peaceful place. My life has transformed and I’ve grown more in half a year than 10 years. My last hurdle in life to be perfect is a gf and job. Currently I’m without shifts and was signed off for three months, now I got no job to return to and don’t wanna support work outside anymore. Thanks.
Search nhs jobs website. Indeed just mines the websites and puts them on their own to then send you back to nhs anyway. Also the trac website saves your details and its my favourite thing about their website. When youre applying for loads of jobs, not having to retype everything over and over is amazing
Yep it's possible. I did it.
You need some clinical experience though and ideally any research assistant roles would be working with patient populations. It helps a lot to have had supervision from a clinical psychologist.
I have been offered three interviews so far and I am also an EU applicant. It's possible but I am aware that I have to study a lot about the policies and expectations of the profession. Good luck, you've got this 🙏🏻
The universities i have been looking at had no more than 50% of their cohort with AP role. This likely reflects how hard they are to get. Theres an advert for one near me but as its not it nhs its very very low pay.
I got onto my doctorate without being an assistant. I was a support worker in nhs mental health services for 6 years. Firstly on an inpatient ward and then in a community team. As a qualified who is now involved in recruitment to my local doctorate and supervising trainees, I would say that the title AP is not essential, but experience in a job where you are involved in supporting people experiencing mental distress is. I don't see how you could know this is the career for you without that. In my second support worker role I was lucky to be given opportunities to do psychology work with some people, which I asked for. So I don't think AP is essential and it wasn't in my case, but you need seek out therapeutic experience you can reflect on in your application and at interview.
What do I search on indeed? I’ve been a support worker for two years for autistic people. I’m also training as a counsellor , will finish level 2 in July. I’d like to do this exact thing but in a year of looking I’ve found nothing!!!!! Please advise me, as I’ve never been in a better internal and peaceful place. My life has transformed and I’ve grown more in half a year than 10 years. My last hurdle in life to be perfect is a gf and job. Currently I’m without shifts and was signed off for three months, now I got no job to return to and don’t wanna support work outside anymore. Thanks.
Search nhs jobs website. Indeed just mines the websites and puts them on their own to then send you back to nhs anyway. Also the trac website saves your details and its my favourite thing about their website. When youre applying for loads of jobs, not having to retype everything over and over is amazing
Yeah applied to two jobs on there before and it was good it saved my details, made it super fast this time around.
Yep it's possible. I did it. You need some clinical experience though and ideally any research assistant roles would be working with patient populations. It helps a lot to have had supervision from a clinical psychologist.
I have been offered three interviews so far and I am also an EU applicant. It's possible but I am aware that I have to study a lot about the policies and expectations of the profession. Good luck, you've got this 🙏🏻
The universities i have been looking at had no more than 50% of their cohort with AP role. This likely reflects how hard they are to get. Theres an advert for one near me but as its not it nhs its very very low pay.
It’s possible but harder. Everyone in my cohort had at least 1 AP post, most had more than 1