- Basic Placement Requirements
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There are some requirements that are common to all placements and that all trainees/supervisors/staff should be aware of.
Days on placement/placement study
There are certain basic requirements about number of days and pattern of study leave across placement
Workload
All trainees are expected to have a workload equivalent to 8 cases in an adult mental health setting.
Leave Arrangements
Below are details of leave arrangements for home fee and international self funded trainees:
Annual Leave Forms are downloadable from the Annual Leave Monitoring tab under Useful Forms
Travel
Health and safety/lone working
It is important that trainees are aware of health and safety/lone working guidelines:
Cultural competence
All trainees are required to be culturally competent:
Service user involvement
All trainees have to have had some meaningful contact with services user groups/representatives who have a consultative role. This needs to happen on at least two placements.
Leadership Skills
Information on developing leadership skills on placement; suggestions for trainees and supervisors:
- Placement guidelines and contracts
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All placements need to have a contract set up and the contract needs to be handed into the course within 4 weeks of the start date of the placement.
See detailed placement guidelines including: an overview of the competences trainees need to acquire through training; information about placement content and learning outcomes; expectations common to all placements and placement content in specific service settings
See basic contract template with guidance on what components make up a contractSee DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for a child placement should contain
See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an LD should contain
See DCP special interest group guidelines on what a contract for an OA should contain
- Placement chart - current allocation for all years
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This section provides access to a placement chart detailing current allocations for trainees in all years. Please note that access to this chart is restricted to trainees and staff on the UCL clinical psychology doctorate (course intranet password is required):
- Placement Schedule & Dates
- Resources for supervisors
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New Supervisor Workshop Slides
UCL run supervision workshops jointly with Royal Holloway University of London and University of East London. The new supervisor workshop gives information on how to set up and run a placement and provides the first part of accredited supervisor training. For slides from this workshop click here. For dates of this and other workshops click here.
Supervisor competence framework
Guidelines for academic work conducted on placement
As part of their course requirements, trainees conduct two different types of academic work while they are on placement; case reports and service related research projects.
It is often useful for supervisors to be able to see the guidelines for these:
Click here for case report guidelines
Click here for service related research guidelines.