North Wales Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme (DClinPsy)

We would like to give you a flavour of what North Wales is like as a place to live and work. As a trainee undertaking the North Wales Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programme, you will spend three years working in one of the most beautiful parts of Great Britain. The School of Psychology and Sport Sciences at Bangor University is renowned for its academic excellence, and our DClinPsy programme is fully accredited by the Health and Care Professions Council, the British Psychological Society and Bangor University.

Because we are a small programme, we respond to our trainees on an individual basis. We regularly collect trainee feedback on the programme, and trainees regularly comment on how family friendly the programme can be. The words ‘friendly’ and ‘approachable’ seem to keep emerging and we hope this genuinely reflects the nature of a programme such as ours.

Although we are small, we offer trainees a wide range of clinical experiences and teaching, often by national leads in that clinical area. We aim to ensure that you have the facilities you need in order to make optimum use of the training we provide. For general enquiries contact: Kathryn Jones (Selection Admin Assistant) For selection enquiries contact: Dr Carolien Lamers (Recruitment and Selection Director) Dr Laura Spencer-Jones (Clinical Tutor) Programme Information We want to give you the background of the programme, our connections and history, as well as information about the programme itself, our philosophy and who works here.

This will hopefully give you a flavour of what studying in North Wales might be like. General Information This three-year doctoral programme is a collaborative venture between the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) and Bangor University and has close working relationships with Powys Teaching Health Board. We are called the North Wales Clinical Psychology Programme, NWCPP.

Successful candidates will obtain a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, which confers eligibility to apply for registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, www.hcpc-uk.org/ ) and eligibility for chartered status with the British Psychological Society. The North Wales programme was the first in the UK to establish the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, leading the way for other programmes. BCUHB clinical psychologists have exceptionally close working links with the NWCPP.

At the 2019 BPS accreditation visit, the programme was commended for these links and the way in which the programme works alongside clinicians within the Health Board. There are at present some 140 qualified clinical psychologists in North Wales, working across the age range, from birth to death, in mental and physical health, intellectual disabilities, neuropsychology, medium secure services. Nearly all are involved in the programme through teaching, supervision (clinical/research), assessing academic work, selection and representation on committees.

The School of Psychology is a centre of excellence for training in clinical practice and has particular strengths in clinical and health psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and learning and developmental psychology. In the most recent Research Excellence Framework in 2021, Bangor University's School of Psychology maintained its status as one of the top Psychology departments in the UK, with 86% of research output rated as internationally excellent or world leading. Professor Michaela Swales, who is internationally recognised for her…