Clinical psychology salaries in Ireland

Faith

I'm currently a DClin trainee in the UK, but with Brexit, I'm having to think seriously about my future, and the possibility of returning to the UK. I was looking into CP salaries in Ireland, and I found a HSE document that indicated it was ~ €49,500 for a basic grade (newly qualified??) CP, increasing to ~€75,000 for a senior CP.

Does that sound correct? And is that in line with third sector salaries? There's a big leap between 'basic' and 'senior' - what does that translate to it terms of years working after qualification, generally?

Faith

Faith wrote: »

I'm currently a DClin trainee in the UK, but with Brexit, I'm having to think seriously about my future, and the possibility of returning to the UK. I was looking into CP salaries in Ireland, and I found a HSE document that indicated it was ~ €49,500 for a basic grade (newly qualified??) CP, increasing to ~€75,000 for a senior CP.

Does that sound correct? And is that in line with third sector salaries? There's a big leap between 'basic' and 'senior' - what does that translate to it terms of years working after qualification, generally?

As far as I know basic grade psychologist earn €54-84k and senior clinical psychologists in excess of €90k. That's according to grad ireland website and research.

Psychologeeee

Check out the HSE April 2017 payscales- you are close enough with your figures.

http://www.hse.ie/eng/staff/benefitsservices/pay/Consolidated-Payscales-1st-April-2017.pdf

They are correct

Psychologeeee

Also, basic grade/staff grade = newly qualified- correct on that also!

mel.b

Within the HSE you can generally apply for senior posts after three yrs experience at a basic grade level - this is what happens with other allied health professionals so I assume it is the same with Clinical Psych posts. However the biggest difficulty with moving up to senior posts is the lack of posts available.

Psychologeeee

mel.b wrote: »

Within the HSE you can generally apply for senior posts after three yrs experience at a basic grade level - this is what happens with other allied health professionals so I assume it is the same with Clinical Psych posts. However the biggest difficulty with moving up to senior posts is the lack of posts available.

Hi Mel.b, my understanding is that senior psych posts required 5 years postgrad experience, inclusive of the 3 years training in clinical psychology. So you can get senior after two years at basic grade level I think!

mel.b

Ahhh, that may be. Still, the number of senior posts is the limiting factor so there will be strong competition. As an example, I work in an early intervention team and we have only had a .5 basic grade increase in Psychology posts in 10yrs, despite massive increases in numbers (but it's the same with all the disciplines).

Faith

Thanks folks, that's really helpful . Interesting how the salaries are significantly higher than they are in the U.K. That was unexpected!

lsjmhar

Faith wrote: »

I'm currently a DClin trainee in the UK, but with Brexit, I'm having to think seriously about my future, and the possibility of returning to the UK. I was looking into CP salaries in Ireland, and I found a HSE document that indicated it was ~ €49,500 for a basic grade (newly qualified??) CP, increasing to ~€75,000 for a senior CP.

Does that sound correct? And is that in line with third sector salaries? There's a big leap between 'basic' and 'senior' - what does that translate to it terms of years working after qualification, generally?

Hi Faith

There are difficulties moving from some countries to Ireland for jobs as a Clinical Psychologist. Some countries do not meet all the requirements to work here as students do not have enough supervised experience to work within the State services, e.g. limited disability work. You should contact the Department of Health to get exact requirements for each core area, ie. CAMHS, AMH, Primary Care, Disability. If you do not have sufficient supervised experience you could be excluded from interviewing for panels for state jobs. If you do not have sufficient experience now you may be able to add it on as part of a specialist placement.

Hope that helps!!

Alexus25

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057763778/clinical-psychology-salaries-in-ireland

Well, after so many years, did you stay in the UK or move back to Ireland ?