Primary care psychologist

A Primary care psychologist is a psychologist with specialist training in psychological knowledge and principles of common physical diseases and mental disorders experienced by patients and families throughout the lifespan, and which tend to present in primary care clinics.

Scotland

Clinical associates in applied psychology are a related "New Ways of Working" initiative in Scotland.

Most recently, the UK Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative, which focuses on primary care psychological therapies provision, has benchmarked professionals at all career levels, from closely supervised psychological wellbeing practitioners to high-intensity psychological therapists, who, in terms of pay, are benchmarked against doctorate level training. Moreover, Clinical lead posts are pivotal in leading related primary care psychological services and these are benchmarked against Consultant Psychologist level.