ACCREDITATION THROUGH
PARTNERSHIP
Doctoral programmes in occupational
psychology: required competencies mapping
document
This document should be completed by providers of Doctoral programmes in occupational
psychology undergoing Society accreditation or a partnership visit as a standalone exercise. Where
education providers have invited the Society to undertake a partnership visit alongside Health and Care
Professions Council (HCPC) approval, they should only complete the HCPC Standards of Proficiency
(SoP) mapping document. Otherwise, they should complete this document, unless a recently completed
HCPC SoP document is available.
Providers of integrated Doctoral programmes that meet the requirements of both stage one and stage two
training, will need to complete the relevant academic knowledge base mapping document, which can be
downloaded from http://www.bps.org.uk/accreditationdownloads.
This is not intended to be an onerous document to complete, as accreditation through partnership explicitly
relies upon existing sources of evidence. However, you should use it to point our reviewers towards where
they can find coverage of the required competencies in one or more of the modules of which your
programme is comprised. This may be as simple as providing a reference to student documentation (e.g.
‘evaluated on placement, Placement Handbook, p. 57’), a module title, or reference to your most recent
internal quality assurance exercise. Please do not feel that you have to provide a very detailed
commentary.
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Required competencies
Module(s)/coverage
Key role 1: Develop, implement and maintain personal and professional standards and ethical
practice
1. Establish, maintain and develop systems for legal, ethical and
professional standards in occupational psychology.
2. Comply with legal, ethical and professional standards in occupational
psychology.
3. Contribute to the continuing development of oneself as a professional
occupational psychologist.
4. Respond to unpredictable contexts and events professionally and
ethically.
5. Formulate developments in legal, ethical and professional standards in
occupational psychology.
Key role 2: Apply psychological and related methods, concepts, models, theories and knowledge
derived from reproducible findings
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Establish requirements for and benefits of occupational psychology.
Plan applications of occupational psychology.
Establish, develop and maintain working relationships with clients.
Conduct applications of occupational psychology.
Direct the implementation of applications of occupational
psychology.
6. Monitor the implementation of the applications of occupational
psychology.
7. Evaluate the impact of the applications of occupational psychology.
Key role 3: Research and develop new and existing psychological methods, concepts, models,
theories and instruments in occupational psychology
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Design psychological research activities.
Conduct psychological research activities.
Analyse and evaluate psychological research data.
Initiate and develop psychological research and knowledge.
Produce and evaluate original psychological research and
knowledge.
6. Conduct systematic review.
Key role 4: Communicate psychological knowledge, principles, methods, needs and policy
requirements
1. Promote psychological principles, practices, services and benefits.
2. Provide psychological advice and guidance to others and facilitate the
use of psychological services.
3. Provide psychological advice to aid policy decision making.
4. Communicate the processes and outcomes of psychological and other
applications and developments.
5. Disseminate psychological knowledge to address current issues in
society.
6. Prepare and present evidence in formal settings.
7. Provide expert psychological opinion to informal information requests.
8. Provide feedback to clients.
Development of additional skills
1. Process skills.
2. Generic skills.
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3. Consultancy cycle.
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