Hello all!
I’m wondering if there is anyone else out there who is applying for the NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) for Genomic Counselling?
Who are you and where are you from? What sort of education/experience do you have?
I’m based in Yorkshire, and have a BSc (Hons) in Medical Sciences from 2010 (2:2 - containing one module on ‘Inherited Disorders’ which I scored 65); a PGDip in Psychotherapy and Counselling from 2016 (Pass with Merit); and an MSc in Psychology from 2017 (Pass with Distinction).
I qualified as a counsellor/psychotherapist in 2016, and did my placement hours at a college counselling service (two academic years). I volunteered as a counsellor/psychotherapist one day a week with a charity for 1.5 years, took time off to have my second child, then have been working as a paid counsellor in an abortion clinic 2 days a week since the end of last year, and opened a private practice seeing a maximum of 5 clients a week in April (I also chose to teach myself how to draw genograms to help identify patterns of relating in families, as well as mental health issues and other things such as alcoholism).
I spent 6 months working in a fertility clinic many years ago (and although I was in administration I was able to observe consultations, tests, and procedures as at the time I was applying for medicine), and have experience of genetics services as a patient due to being in a cancer family history clinic, and having to undergo prenatal genetic testing with my second (this is, strangely, what sparked an interest in genetics again - as I did enjoy it at Uni).
I’m thinking of attending the STP open day in Oxford if I can get it off work, is anyone else thinking of going?
Tell me all about yourselves - let’s support each other through the process!
V