The Society offers the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN) which confers eligibility for entry onto the Society's Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists.

If you want to work as a Clinical Neuropsychologist this qualification establishes a standard of practice that will help you demonstrate essential skills and underpin knowledge required of a professional in this field.

• Becoming a Clinical Neuropsychologist by Dr Claire Doyle (QiCN Trainee Rep) 
• Careers and Clinical Practice: Paediatric Neuropsychology by Dr Kate Scarff 
• Clinical Neuropsychology in Community Neurorehabilitation by Dr Claire Doyle
• Learn more about the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN)
• Q&A about training routes in Clinical Neuropsychology
• Q&A about the completing the QiCN

The Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists is the gold standard for registration for clinicians practising in neuropsychology and provides a quality mark for their expertise, as well as assurance that the skills and experience of an individual have been validated and are of the appropriate standard.

To join the register clinicians must undergo additional specialist post-doctoral training in brain injury and neurological illness and gain substantial experience in applied neuropsychological assessment and treatment.

To remain on the SRCN registrants are required to maintain an active supervision and CPD plan to ensure their knowledge and skills remain up to date.

The SRCN allows the general public, patients and other professionals to identify those individuals who are recognised as Clinical Neuropsychologists by the UK’s professional body of psychologists.

It is considered important that such a register is accessible to the public as such professionals are not currently required to register with the Health and Care Professions Council as Clinical Neuropsychologists.

• Find out more about Specialist Register in Clinical Neuropsychology

Ingram Wright and Rupert Noad discuss developments in neuropsychology training in the UK including new routes for counselling psychologists to access training in neuropsychology.

This is the first in a series of 4 brief lunchtime 'taster' sessions on clinical neuropsychology for psychologists working as assistants, trainees or band 7s in neuropsychology settings, discussing some of the issues that come up.

Session 1: Some of the pitfalls of statistical versus clinical significance in the interpretation of psychometric data

One of the questions that assistants and trainees most often ask is, ‘How on earth does one make sense of all these test results?’ This session is to orient you to what your supervisor is doing and to some of the problems and bear traps involved in interpretation, together with a few suggestions about how to get better at seeing the wood for the trees.

This is the second in a series of 4 brief lunchtime 'taster' sessions on clinical neuropsychology for psychologists working as assistants, trainees or band 7s in neuropsychology settings, discussing some of the issues that come up.

Session 2: What is ‘complex behavioural formulation’ in clinical neuropsychology?

Building on the first chat, this session looks in more detail at how the test data are used by clinical neuropsychologists alongside other sources of data to forge an answer to the original hypothesis or referral question.

This is the third in a series of 4 brief lunchtime 'taster' sessions on clinical neuropsychology for psychologists working as assistants, trainees or band 7s in neuropsychology settings, discussing some of the issues that come up.

Session 3: Don’t forget your clinical skills!

Clinical neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists working in neuropsychology are all continuing to use their foundational core clinical skills. This session follows on from behavioural formulation with some reflections on the importance of blending clinical and neuropsychological skills, using some case vignettes.

This is the fourth in a series of 4 brief lunchtime 'taster' sessions on clinical neuropsychology for psychologists working as assistants, trainees or band 7s in neuropsychology settings, discussing some of the issues that come up.

Session 4: Some of the common pathologies we see in clinical neuropsychology and ways of working with them

Neuropsychology involves not only cognitive assessment in its various forms; neuropsychological rehabilitation and support; but also working therapeutically with people with neurological conditions.

This last session touches on therapy and looks at some of the key issues in working with people with epilepsy, subarachnoid haemorrhage and brain tumours.