NHS-funded psychological professions training programme

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Just stumbled on NHS-funded psychological professions training programme and am looking for some personal experience or if anyone heard anything about it?
I am 40+ with a senior position in fintech. However, I do not think this is a viable career for me as I get older. There's big discrimination against aging stuff and I don't think I want to deal with stress of managing teams and pressures of delivery when I am in my 50/60s.
Retraining as psychology professional (while getting paid) sounds like an interesting option.

Am I missing anything? I have science degree and true interest in human psychology but always worked in private sector, so really don't know what I would be getting myself into... how bad is it working for NHS?
Hoping for more flexibility and less stess as I get older and at the time want to feel like I am contributing and helping others.

Thanks for reading!

Replying to bump your post.

I think experiences working in the NHS vary depending on where you end up and with whom.

Which particular pathway are you looking at?

Clinical psychology is very very competitive and takes people years to get enough experience to even make it into the DClinPsy programme.

I am looking at Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner and maybe behavioural therapy after?
Would I be able to get a training position at 50? How competitive/ stressful are these positions?

It is an incredibly intense post grad. You would see up to 15 a week and go to meetings and deliver group work. It is not for the faint hearted . But can be rewarding

*15 patients

I think that there is a similar programme that works with schools? I'd imagine the pay is low, maybe band 4?

Emhp school based
band 4 training then 5 when trained.

My dd is a psychological well-being practitioner for the nhs. Many of her colleagues who trained with her are very mature entrants and come from all sorts of backgrounds. After the training year pay is band 5.

She does have busy days, seeing people face to face, doing phone counselling and also running group sessions. They have regular supervision sessions and well being activities.

Hmm yes looks that thx band is quite low. Is there anything with higher band?

After 2 years working as a qualified practitioner there are avenues to progress, but obviously, like in all careers, you have to show you have the skills before getting promotion/ taking on further training.