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Overview
Improve your knowledge of clinical neuropsychology for professional CPD or to count toward the 'knowledge' component of the adult clinical neuropsychology Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN), with our British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited postgraduate diploma.
The course is delivered 100% online and is supported on an attractive and easy-to-navigate online learning platform, with a variety of learning materials. You will have access to pre-recorded lectures and podcasts, live webinars, interactive and facilitated student activities, discussions in online study groups, and fully accessible e-reading lists, including online journals and e-books, and other web-based media and resources.
The course is structured in its learning design and timeframes (3-week periods) in which you will complete certain segments of themed content and activities.
What's more, this course is largely self-directed and self-paced so you can adapt to fit your schedule, employment, and lifestyle.
Why study Clinical Neuropsychology at CCCU?
The PGDip is ideal for professionally-registered clinical counselling psychologists who wish to improve their practice-based knowledge and competency relating to clinical work with clients (or patients) with long-term neurological conditions and/or acquired brain injuries in any setting, in the community, in clinics or neurorehabilitation units, or acute hospitals.
This course is particularly appropriate for candidates who are interested in joining the SRCN as it is BPS-accredited and counts towards the ‘knowledge’ component of the British Psychological Society (BPS), Division of Neuropsychology, Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN).
Those who qualify can continue onto further study on the Salomons Institute PGCert Clinical Neuropsychology Practice, thereby completing the route to the SRCN.
If the SRCN is not your aim however, you can still join the PGDip or you may be most interested in the Salomons Institute’s online CPD offerings in clinical neuropsychology.
Entry requirements
Applicants should:
- be HCPC registered (or equivalent) Practitioner Clinical or Counselling Psychologist (you will need to provide a HCPC registration number and doctoral level training equivalent education with postgraduate teaching, practicum and thesis)
- be a member, or have eligibility for full membership, with British Psychological Society (BPS) division (i.e., DCP or DCoP) or equivalent
- be employed (part-time or full-time) in a service that provides assessment and/or intervention for individuals with neurological conditions, brain injuries, or conditions with neuropsychological presentation in which clinical neuropsychology represents a component of the service
- have access (and likelihood of permission and client consent) to cases that can be written up for assessment of your clinical competence, for educational purposes, toward completion of the PGDip award
- have a minimum of one-year post-qualification / HCPC-registered experience in the/a clinical neuropsychology service
- demonstrate how to work effectively in teams, taking a compassionate and client-centred approach, and have capacity for reflective practice – you will have the opportunity to showcase these skills in the interview with our course directors.
Online competencies form
Please complete this online competencies form in addition to your CCCU online application. In this form you are asked to show us that your training, research, supervised practice, and/or CPD meets selected generic competencies which were set out in the ‘Competencies Framework for Clinical Neuropsychologists’ (CFCN: 2012).
This additional online form is needed in order to evaluate your application, so we ask that you complete this at the same time as completing your CCCU online application, and in any case before the application deadline.
In order to progress beyond the PGDip toward the SRCN, you will also need to qualify for a research exemption. This is evaluated from the online BPS pre-competencies form in the first instance and will be discussed with each applicant how they can achieve this exemption.
International students
If English is not your first language you require an IELTS overall score of 7.0 with no element below 6.5 for HCPC registration and this postgraduate course. Please see our English language requirements page for more information.
Alternatively, you will have completed a professional doctoral level equivalent higher education degree that was taught and assessed entirely in English.
Additional information
Please note that if you have a clinical neuropsychology Master's, doctorate, and/or license as a clinical neuropsychologist from a non-UK country you should seek HCPC registration and full division membership or proof of eligibility with the BPS.
'Clinical Neuropsychologist' is not currently a protected title in the UK, and therefore your credentials should be assessed by the HCPC to see if they qualify you for HCPC registration. Cross borders agreement and equivalency exists with Ireland. Chartership with PSI is viewed as equivalent to HCPC registration for admission onto the course.
Module information
Core/optional modules
*Modules subject to approval
How you’ll learn
This is an online course and is made up of three 15-week academic trimesters per year, each composed of 12 weeks of course content and 3 weeks independent study time / time to complete assessments.
Trimesters start in September, January, and May annually. You should have the capacity to dedicate the equivalent minimum of a day a week to study, but this can be ‘anytime’ as course materials are always available to you online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it is possible to study in 30-minute segments of time.
At the beginning of the course you will take part in a half day online video conference orientation on Friday 12 September 2025 (9:30 am – 1 pm), which will include orientation to and training on how to use the University’s virtual learning environment (VLE).
You will be introduced to a small learning group of students of four each and will have facilitated opportunities to learn with this small learning group throughout the 2-year part-time course in this online community.
Your online learning will be supported by a variety of material, including pre-recorded lectures, podcasts, and multi-media. These are all designed into manageable and themed segments, that you can take at your own pace. As learning is themed, your learning is focused around only a few competencies at a time, allowing interest to grow and to consolidate learning effectively.
Other material includes ‘foundational’ and ‘advanced’ reading from e-books, downloadable e-journal articles, and tutor recommended web-based material. Each theme contains a required reading list, related to the theme and cutting-edge thought and practice in clinical neuropsychology.
Our expert teaching team will share their professional experiences and thought, whilst ensuring you are part of the course’s online student learning community.Dr Jerry BurgessCourse Director
How you’ll be assessed
You will be assessed using a number of formats designed to tap into the different skills that highly relate to skills and competencies that are required or useful in employment in clinical neuropsychology.
These include timed ‘take home’ exams when being assessed on acquired knowledge, clinical case reports when being assessed on clinical competency, topic papers or ‘strategic’ literature reviews based around your professional goals and your ability to find out and critically appraise new information, and your participation in the online ‘study group’ community.
Your future career
The course will improve your knowledge and skills, and enhance your employment opportunities in clinical neuropsychology, and if pre-qualified, allows you to pursue the next ‘practice’ stage of the pathway to the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN) or BPS Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN).
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Fees
Tuition fees for this course
| UK | Overseas | |
| Full-time | N/A | N/A |
| Part-time | £4,315 | £6,475 |
Important Information on Tuition Fees
Tuition fees for all courses which last more than one academic year are payable on an annual basis, except where stated.
There will be an annual inflationary increase in tuition fees for this course where the course lasts more than one academic year. For further information read the Tuition fee statements and continuing fee information.
Further application information
Applications are now open for September 2025 until all spaces are filled, so apply early to avoid disappointment.
Applications and online BPS competencies forms will be reviewed by the Course Team, then qualified applicants will be invited for an interview with the course directors. When course is filled, a waitlist will be applied.
If you have any questions or queries, please email the Course Director, Dr Jerry Burgess.
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