About
The University of Hull Clinical Psychology Training Course is a six-year integrated professional training programme, run in conjunction with the Departments of Psychology in Hull and York universities. It operates in partnership with NHS Trusts and other organisations across the region and culminates in the award of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (ClinPsyD).
The Course was originally developed as a collaborative venture between the four former District Health Authorities of Humberside (East Yorkshire, Grimsby, Hull and Scunthorpe) and the University, to provide clinical psychologists qualified and competent to be recruited to the local NHS. Planning and negotiations began in the early 1980s. Unlike existing courses, the Hull Course was conceived from the outset as an integrated undergraduate/postgraduate programme, with candidates selected for clinical training during their undergraduate programme at Hull. The Course received initial accreditation from the British Psychological Society in 1986, and the first cohort (5), successfully completed the six-year programme in 1989. At that time the standard professional university qualification for clinical psychology courses was the MSc, and the Hull Course was no different in this. However, in 1995 the Hull Course became one of the first university-based courses in the UK to award the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (ClinPsyD). In 2003, a partnership between the then named Department of Clinical Psychology of the University of Hull, the Department of Psychology of the University of York and the Department of Clinical Psychology of then the Selby and York NHS Primary Care Trust, led to the development of a York undergraduate entry stream to the Hull-based, postgraduate Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, in addition to the existing Hull psychology undergraduate intake.
The programme is approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the statutory regulator for practitioner psychologists in the UK and it is also accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). The Society is the professional body responsible for developing and supporting the discipline of psychology and disseminating psychological knowledge to the public and policy makers. Successful completion of the programme confers eligibility to apply for Chartered Membership of the Society and full membership of the Division of Clinical Psychology.
The doctorate programme is of three year’s duration and postgraduate trainees are funded and salaried by the Health Education England (Yorkshire and the Humber) and employed, for the duration of the programme, by the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
The Programme has an annual intake of fifteen clinical psychology trainees. These clinical psychology trainees contribute to health care service provision through their supervised clinical placements in local NHS Trusts. Furthermore, they undertake small scale and doctoral research projects in a broad range of health care topics. These are conducted in the Trusts and contribute to knowledge and subsequent improvement of local health care.
The Clinical Psychology Doctorate Programme sits within the Faculty of Health Sciences and is part of the Psychological Health, Wellbeing and Social Work subject group alongside Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Social Work, Learning Disability and Mental Health Nursing Programmes.