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WINNER:

East London FT, Essex Partnership University FT and Sheffield Health and Social Care FT

Clinical Associate in Psychology: An Apprenticeship Model for a Future Sustainable and Diverse Psychology Workforce

The NHS needs to increase the psychology workforce by 60 per cent by 2024. Yet in England in 2020 only 18 per cent of psychology graduates were accepted on to clinical psychology courses via traditional training routes. To address this, a Trailblazer Group was established in 2018 bringing together clinical psychology leads from three NHS trusts. The CAP apprenticeship programme was created, with a vision to build a sizeable, sustainable, diverse psychology workforce representative of communities themselves. Partnerships with universities to develop locally sensitive training courses alongside strategic workforce plans have been developed.

NHSE/HEE formally welcomed CAP into the family of psychological professions in 2022. “This was a very powerful and practical workforce initiative which hits the purpose of this award on the head,” said judges.

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Highly commended: Modality Partnership - Thinking Outside the Box

Finalists

  • Birmingham and Solihull ICS – ‘I Can’ Programme
  • Connecting Futures Collaborative - A Regional Refugee Doctor Programme
  • Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board - LAMP Programme
  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals FT - Medical Intern Project
  • NHS England, RefuAid, Talent Beyond Boundaries, Liverpool John Moores University and Partners - Refugee Nursing Support Programme
  • Northern Care Alliance FT - Planning for the Future
  • West London Trust - CAMHS Training and Progression Programme

Topics

Winners of HSJ Awards 2022 revealed