Useful Websites For Professional Psychology

1. Useful Websites For Professional Psychology Prepared by Sandi Thomson with thanks to Janet Forsyth at the University of Edinburgh

2. Clinical Psychology • Division of Clinical Psychology www.bps.org.uk/dcp • Psyclick www.psyclick.org.uk • ClinPsy www.clinpsy.org.uk • NHS jobs https://jobs.scot.nhs.ukwww.jobs.nhs.uk • Mental health jobs www.mentalhealthjobs.co.uk • Psychminded www.psychminded.co.uk • PsychNet-UK www.psychnet-uk.com • BPS Appointments www.psychapp.co.uk

3. Statistics on Clinical Clearing House Applications Year 2012 20112010 20092008 Applicants 3857 35282969 23422323 Places 586 569617 623 592 Success Rate 15% 16%21% 27% 25% • Success rate in 2012 was 15%, 1 in 6 to 1 in 7 applicants were offered a place – far better odds than many other areas of graduate employment. • Glasgow course 353 applicants for 23 places (c.15 to 1 applicants per place) • Edinburgh course 489 applicants for 27 places (c. 18 applicants per place) • Current minimum salary for a Trainee Clinical Psychologist £25,528 pa (4/12 figures)

4. Educational Psychology • Division of Educational and Child Psychology http://decp.bps.org.uk/ • Association of Educational Psychologists www.aep.org.uk • Department for Education www.education.gov.uk/schools/careers/careeropportunities/ • Educational psychology training in Scotland • www.dundee.ac.uk/eswce/programmes/mscedpsy/ • www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/courses/pscyhology/courses/educationalpsychology/ • Scottish Division of Educational Psychology http://sdep.bps.org.uk/ • Council jobs www.myjobscotland.gov.uk

5. Occupational Psychology • Division of Occupational Psychology www.bps.org.uk/dop • Chartered Institute for Personal and Development www.cipd.co.uk • Civil Service www.civilservice.gov.uk/jobs.index.aspx • Department for Work and Pensions http://www.dwp.gov.uk/ • Ministry of Defence http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Home/ • People Management http://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/pm/ • Personnel Today http://www.personneltoday.com/Home/

6. Forensic Psychology • Division of Forensic Psychology www.bps.org.uk/dfp • Victim Support www.victimsupportsco.org.uk • Scottish Prison Service www.sps.gov.uk • HM Prison Service www.justice.gov.uk/about.hmps • National Probation Service www.nationalprobationservice.co.uk • Criminal Justice Social Work www.myjobscotland.gov.uk • National Association of Official Prison Visitors www.nanopv.com • Scottish Association for the Care and Resettlements of offenders (SACRO) www.sacro.org.uk • National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO) www.nacro.org.uk

7. Counselling Psychology • Division of Counselling Psychology www.bps.org.uk/dcop • British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy www.bacp.co.uk • The Samaritans www.samaritans.org • Goodmoves www.goodmoves.org.uk • Jobs in charities www.jobsincharities.co.uk

8. Sport and Exercise Psychology • Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology www.bps.org.uk/spex • British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) www.bases.org.uk • http://dtrp.bps.org.uk/ Division for Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology

9. Health Psychology • Division of Health Psychology www.bps.org.uk/dhp • Healthjobs UK www.healthjobsuk.com Neuropsychology • Division of Neuropsychology www.bps.org.uk.don • Jobs.ac.uk www.jobs.ac.uk/sector.psychology • New Scientist www.newscientistjobs.com