Graduate employment

Completion and employment rates

Clinical psychology training has excellent completion rates and graduates have excellent rates of employment.

Completion rate for trainees

• The national non-completion rate for NHS trainees for the academic year 2021/2022 was only 0.7%, which includes all forms of non-completion. This is in line with the rates for the previous 10 years which were between 0.4% and 1.0% each year.

Employment rate for graduates

• For people completing NHS training in 2022, of those who returned data 96.7% took up employment as a clinical psychologist (or in an equivalent post) within 12 months of graduating. This is in line with the rates for the previous 9 years which were between 92.0% and 97.0%.
• Of those working as clinical psychologists (or in an equivalent post) 96.0% were working in the NHS or in other public sector funded posts. This is again in line with the rates for the previous 9 years which were between 92.3% and 98.2%.

Specialty data for graduates

Data for the specialities that clinical psychology trainees went on to work in after they graduated.