After Graduation - Clinical Psychology

For students considering the standard DClin course, the following roles will put them in a good place to apply in a few years:

  • Research assistant / PhD positions on clinically relevant topics / populations (see jobs.ac.uk; findaphd.com)
  • Assistant Psychologist post (increasingly rare),
  • Well-being practitioner (delivering CBT)
  • Paid non-clinical job and continuing voluntary work relevant to clinical psychology
  • MSc in Clinical Psychology or a related field, particularly if your UG grades are relatively poor and you need to show good academic performance

Assistant Psychologist vacancies and other related posts are advertised in the following:


Applications to clinical psychology training are made at www.leeds.ac.uk/chpccp

For further information and advice see the following books (both in the JB Morrell library):

  • Clinical Psychology in Practice, Beinart, Kennedy, and Llewelyn, Blackwell, 2009.
  • What is Clinical Psychology? Llewelyn and Murphy, OUP, 2014.

To contact the Student Documentation maintainers please email psychology-student-docs-group@york.ac.uk (use your University of York email address).