Step-by-step guide to applying for practical training positions

Steps

1. Step 0: Points to note

   1. The date on which you register with us affects, amongst other things, your eligibility to apply for a grant. Generally speaking, you must register with us before 1 March if you wish to start the programme in the following calendar year with a grant.
   2. You may only provide training for a BIG-registered profession if your institution or the partnership of multiple institutions meets the national accreditation requirements and is accredited to provide training for that profession.
   3. The step-by-step guide applies only to the RadboudCSW training programmes for Healthcare Psychologists, Psychotherapists and Clinical Psychologists. As the training programme for Generalist Remedial Educationalists in the South and East of the Netherlands (OG ZON) is run in collaboration with RINO Zuid, applications must be submitted via the OG ZON website. 

   Apply for practical training position OG-ZON

2. Step 1: Decide where to start in the registration process

   If you are not yet accredited, you can apply for accreditation with us. Please proceed to step 2.

   If you are already accredited and would like to:

   • be eligible for a grant? Please proceed to step 3.  
   • start training as soon as possible – with or without a grant? Please contact the relevant training coordinator (opleidingsplaats [at] rcsw.nl) to explore your options. 

3. Step 2: Apply for accreditation as a training institution

   Applications for accreditation can be submitted at any time of year. The process of applying, undergoing an inspection and receiving accreditation takes at least three months. Without national accreditation, you cannot apply for a training place with us and cannot yet begin training.

   Apply for accreditation via vLOGO

   As an accredited institution, you may be eligible for a grant from the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to help cover the costs of training at your practice. If you were accredited as a practice training centre before 1 April, you will only be eligible for the grant (NZa availability contribution) from the following calendar year. Please consult the NZa website to see whether your practice is eligible for the availability contribution. Different rules apply to organisations that focus exclusively on young people under the age of 18. The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport provides information on this on its website.

4. Step 3: Apply for training places (before 1 March)

   If you wish to offer a training place, you must apply to us by 1 March for courses starting in the following calendar year. For example: if you wish to offer a training place for next year, you must apply to us by 1 March this year.

   This also applies to training organisations that have previously provided training through us. However, this does NOT apply to all current places, i.e. participants who are still undertaking their training; you do not need to reapply to us for these.

   Institutions that submit their application after 1 March will be placed on a list of so-called late applications. These late applications are not eligible for the NZa availability contribution, but we can often still offer a place in our training groups.  

   Applying for training places is free of charge. You will be temporarily redirected to our old website: 

   Apply for training places

   Feedback session: Allocation of training places (mid-April)

   The SPON board (responsible for BIG training programmes at RadboudCSW) decides annually on the allocation of training places. If you applied for places before 1 March and are accredited to provide training, you will automatically receive a message from us in April regarding the training places we have allocated to you for the following calendar year.

5. Step 4: Confirm and/or cancel training places (before 1 October)

   All training places allocated for the following calendar year must be confirmed or cancelled by your training organisation or consortium of organisations by 1 October. If we do not receive confirmation by 1 October, the allocation of the relevant training place(s) will lapse and we will allocate the place(s) to another organisation. Training places can be cancelled free of charge until 1 October by email (opleidingsplaatsrcsw [at] ru.nl). After 1 October, we will charge the full training costs to the practice.

6. Step 5: Selecting candidates

   Once you are certain that your institution or consortium of institutions wishes to fill the training place and you have confirmed the allocated training place(s) with us, you can begin recruiting and selecting candidates for these training places. We can assist you with this by posting your vacancy on our website. You can email your vacancy to us (opleidingsplaatsrcsw [at] ru.nl). 

7. Step 6: Nominating candidates (no later than 3 months before the start of the course)

   Your practice or consortium of practices formally nominates a candidate to our lead trainer by completing a web form on this website. We will then invite your candidate to an assessment interview with the lead trainer. The lead trainer decides on admission to the programme. The candidate and the practice will be notified of this decision. Participants must then register with the national training register managed by the FGZPt.

   To complete the form, you will be temporarily redirected to our old website. 

   Nominate candidate

8. Step 6: Signing the SPON-Practical Training Institution Cooperation Agreement (start of the course)

   Before the programme begins, we will send you a Cooperation Agreement between SPON and your practical training institution, in which the duties and responsibilities of both parties are formally set out. For each training placement, SPON also enters into a separate training agreement with the relevant participants.