Graduate employment

Completion and employment rates

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

The national non-completion rate for NHS trainees for the academic year 2024/2025 was only 0.3%, which includes all forms of non-completion.
This is slightly lower than the rates for the previous 10 years which were between 0.4% and 0.9% each year.

The Clearing House has commissioned King's College London to conduct a workforce research project. The aims are to:

understand early career outcomes for clinical psychology graduates
gain information about the clinical psychology workforce for NHS commissioners
gain information which may improve future training and support for trainees and graduates

In time this is intended to replace our previous graduate employment data collection process.

For people completing NHS training in 2024, of those who returned data 90.5% were employed as a clinical psychologist (or an equivalent post) within 12 months of graduating.
Although this is slightly lower than the rates for the previous 10 years, which were between 92.0% and 97.0%, there continues to be a very healthy post-graduation employment rate.
Of those working as clinical psychologists (or an equivalent post) 96.8% were working in the NHS or in other public sector funded posts.
This is in line with the rates for the previous 10 years which were between 93.6% and 98.7%.