The Final Assessment of Competence form is the culmination of a year’s work. It should feel like documentation, not decision-making. If you’ve been tracking competency evidence throughout the internship, completing PACF-76 is a matter of pulling together what you already know.
If you haven’t, it’s the moment where a year of scattered notes must become a professional judgement you’re willing to sign your name to.
PACF-76 is completed by the principal supervisor after the provisional psychologist has met all hour requirements and passed the National Psychology Examination. It is submitted directly to AHPRA as part of the application for general registration (AGEN-76). The Board does not request logbooks or progress reviews as part of this submission — only if separately requested.
What does Section A cover?
Section A captures identifying information: the provisional psychologist’s name, registration number, and contact details, alongside the principal supervisor’s details and registration number. You’ll also record any secondary supervisors involved in the internship and the date the Board approved the INPP-76 (Internship Plan).
This section is administrative, but don’t treat it as throwaway. The secondary supervisor details recorded here need to match the arrangements you documented throughout the internship. If a secondary supervisor changed mid-year, the CHPS-76 (Change of Principal Supervisor) form should have been submitted within 28 days of that change.
[Source: PACF-76 p.1; December 2025 Guidelines, Section 6.2]
What hours do you need to declare in Section B?
Section B is where you declare the provisional psychologist’s hours across every category the Board requires. Before completing this section, you should be confident that the logbook (LBPP-76) supports every figure you enter.
The hours break down as follows:
Total practice hours — must meet or exceed 1,500
Client contact hours — assessment, intervention, and prevention activities (minimum 500, of which up to 60 may be simulated)
Client-related activity hours — excluding supervision and professional development
Individual supervision with principal supervisor — minimum 50 hours
Individual supervision with secondary supervisor(s) — recorded separately
Group supervision — principal and secondary, capped at five provisionals per session
Education and training hours — minimum 60, must include health equity and culturally safe practice components
What should you check before opening the PACF-76?
Before you open the PACF-76, confirm each of the following:
Provisional has completed 1,500 or more total practice hours
500 or more client contact hours recorded (maximum 60 simulated)
80 or more supervision hours total (50 or more individual with you as principal)
60 or more education and training hours
44 weeks FTE minimum internship duration met
4 or more direct observation sessions per six-month period (2 assessment + 2 intervention)
National Psychology Examination passed
If any threshold is not met, the PACF-76 cannot be completed. There is no mechanism for conditional submission or provisional approval.
[Source: December 2025 Guidelines, Table 1; PACF-76 pp.1–2]
How do the eight competencies work in Section D?
Section D is where the supervisory judgement lives. You are asked to initial each of the eight professional competency domains to confirm observed satisfactory performance.
The eight professional competencies, with their exact official names:
Applies and builds scientific knowledge of psychology to inform safe and effective practice
Practises ethically and professionally
Exercises professional reflexivity, purposeful and deliberate practice, and self-care
Conducts psychological assessments
Conducts psychological interventions
Communicates and relates to others effectively and appropriately
Demonstrates a health equity and human rights approach when working with people from diverse groups
Demonstrates a health equity and human rights approach when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, families and communities
The form’s instruction reads: “Refer to the professional competencies for psychologists to ensure the specific core competency descriptors have been met.” Each domain in the Professional Competencies document contains numbered behavioural descriptors.
What this means practically: you need to have observed or gathered evidence against these published descriptors throughout the year. The PACF-76 does not ask you to provide that evidence — it asks you to attest that it exists. If a complaint arises or the Board investigates, the evidence behind your initials is what will be examined.
There is no standardised rating scale. No rubric. No exemplar. It is supervisor judgement against the published descriptors.
[Source: PACF-76 Section D; Professional competencies for psychologists]
What are you actually signing in Section E?
This is the section that carries the weight.
By signing Section E, you attest that the provisional psychologist “has met all professional competencies and acquired proficiency to a level where they are able to practise independently, competently and ethically as a generally registered psychologist.”
Note: “ethically” is included in the actual declaration. Some secondary sources omit it when paraphrasing.
This declaration should be read alongside INPP-76 Section I, which contains the clearest professional responsibility language in the forms inventory: by signing, the supervisor accepts responsibility for the contents of any document they sign or co-sign for the Board.
The Code of Conduct reinforces this. Section 10.1.f states that supervisors may be held responsible for supervisee conduct if supervision standards aren’t met. This language is prescriptive (“you must”), not aspirational, and is enforceable under the National Law.
None of this is designed to discourage you from signing. It is designed to make clear what the signature means — and why the evidence trail leading up to it matters as much as the form itself.
[Source: PACF-76 pp.2–3; INPP-76 Section I; Code of Conduct Section 10.1.f]
How do you make the PACF-76 a natural conclusion?
The difference between a stressful PACF-76 and a straightforward one is not the form itself — it’s what happened in the 12 months before you opened it.
If competency evidence accumulated throughout the internship, tagged against the eight professional competencies, reviewed in progress meetings, and documented in a retrievable format, then completing the PACF-76 is a matter of confirming what you already know.
If it didn’t, the form becomes the point where you’re reconstructing a year of supervision from memory, session notes, and scattered records — and signing a professional declaration based on that reconstruction.
Bridgyr builds the evidence base for PACF-76 throughout the year, from both sides of the supervision relationship — so when you reach the final assessment, it’s a natural conclusion to the work you’ve already done, not an additional burden on top of it. Get early access →
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