Are you an educational pyschologist?

[KateGrey]

Hi,

I’m wanting to retrain and consider becoming an educational pyschologist but have no one to talk to about the role. I have two children with Sen which is why I’ve considered a change in career as I have some knowledge in this area and its developed so I’d like to use that knowledge. I’d need to do a conversion course but I was wondering if anyone could tell me what it’s like. Hours etc.

I’m not sure what you mean by conversion course? The Ed Psych I know did a Psychology degree, MA in psychology, then a PhD in a related subject before being able to train to do testing as an Ed Psych. She works privately, sets her own hours and makes very good money. However it was eight years of study and training to get there.

Possibly there are levels of seniority but I understood from her that the PhD was a requirement.

Are you a qts?

Educational psychology is really competitive. You would need to do a psychology conversion course assuming you have a degree in a different subject and then I imagine at least 2 years experience in a related role before you would be considered for the doctoral training. A friend of got rejected twice from the training course before being accepted. She has a psychology degree. A pgce, four years special needs teaching experience some as a senco a master in child development and a graduate certificate in child observation.