{"id":592412,"date":"2026-08-22T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592412\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T08:48:09","slug":"i-cant-find-nhs-psychologist-job-after-10-years-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/592412\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I can&#8217;t find NHS psychologist job after 10 years training&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A woman who has spent almost ten years training with the NHS to becoming a clinical psychologist has said she will soon be unemployed as there are &#8220;no jobs&#8221; for her in the organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Soon-to-be qualified Grace Jackson, of Chorlton, Manchester, said she was being forced to consider moving to the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Unite union held a protest outside Number 10 North in Manchester on Friday over the lack of permanent roles for NHS trained mental health workers and a rise in temporary contracts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said there had been a 15% rise in the number of clinical psychologists employed by the NHS over the past five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jackson said she was unsure what to do next. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know the NHS is in dire need of psychology roles being filled,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re all being trained and sent kind of through the pipeline and then there aren&#8217;t those qualified jobs for us at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who has spent almost ten years training with the NHS to becoming a clinical psychologist has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-592412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}