Career change

Nurse99

Career change from nursing to clinical psychology

(edited 3 years ago)

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marinade

No. It's not that bleak :smile:

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You'd do a conversion course in Psychology. https://www.bps.org.uk/public/become-psychologist/accredited-courses?type=CONV select conversion course, that lists everything. To get various what some on here would call 'psychology careers' you need BPS accreditation*. So it's checking the course is accredited ^^. Although it's quite daunting, Psychology MScs can be quite low contact hours, so for example the conversion course down the road from me is 1 day per week and people do it alongside jobs. Non-Psychology people tend to underestimate the skills they have vs Psychology people, some of this is because Psychology uses a lot of jargon.

It's very common for people from many walks of life law, nursing, engineering, marketing, english, politics to do a psychology conversion course. Convertees tend to far better than pure psychology peeps in the jobs market.

*BPS accreditation is for things like assistant psychologist, Psychological Wellbeing Practictioner, eventual chartership if you get there and some other things. For other things you do not need BPS accreditation.

As you've seen actual patients, yes it involves a year+ of more studying, but you'll probably find people will snap your arm off to have you because you've seen actual patients in a clinical capacity. This is pretty rare for psychology graduates. You also have a more robust master's degree than the vast majority of Psychology graduates and you have been in a profession with proper supervision and CPD. These are huge advantages.