Clinical Tutor/ Teaching Registrar in Psychiatry

Swansea Bay University Health Board; Swansea; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare institution in the UK is seeking a Teaching Registrar in Psychiatry. This role involves supporting medical education and teaching students. Candidates should have at least 12 months of clinical experience in psychiatry and a keen interest in medical education. Key responsibilities include running teaching clinics, contributing to students' assessments, and promoting clinical skills development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 months clinical experience in psychiatry.
• Proven interest in teaching undergraduate medical students.
• Demonstrates awareness of the responsibilities of being a role model.

Responsibilities

• Support Specialty Attachment in Psychiatry placements.
• Organise and run teaching clinics.
• Contribute to tutorials during placements.

Skills

Teaching

Clinical experience

Communication skills

Mentoring

Education

Full GMC registration

MBBS or equivalent

Certificate in medical education

Job description

Do you share our Health Board values Caring for each other Working together Always improving? If so, we would love for you to come and work for Swansea Bay University HB.

This is a whole time post for a period of 1 year and is suitable for someone who has experience of working in psychiatry in the UK and who has an interest in medical education. MRCPsych membership is ideal but not essential. The teaching registrar would work under the educational leadership of Dr Julia Kramer, Consultant Psychiatrist based in Morriston Hospital, Swansea. However, the incumbent could have an interest in another specialty based in Cefn Coed Hospital and other hospital sites within the Mental Health Directorate.

Main duties of the job

a. Supporting the Specialty Attachment in Psychiatry placement (years 3 & 4)

Contributing to tutorials during the placement.

Organising and running a teaching clinic linked to existing clinics

Leading ward based teaching for students.

Supporting students with mini-Cex assessments

Encouraging the development of examination and clinical reasoning skills

Promoting principles of prescribing and psychopharmacology

Providing opportunities for students to practice clinical skills

Supporting students in difficulty

Promoting the biopsychosocial model, holistic practice, and person centred clinical principles

b. LOCS (Learning Opportunities in a Clinical Setting)

Providing opportunities for 1st and 2nd year students

c. Assessment

To assist in question writing, emendation and standard setting of undergraduate medical exams (knowledge and clinical)

To train as an examiner for OSCE examinations

About us

Cefn Coed Hospital currently provides 150 beds serving the Swansea, Neath Port Talbot and Bridgend area. Psychiatric services are primarily community based within sectorised Community Mental Health Teams, linked to a Consultant Psychiatrist and acute wards in the hospital. Two years ago the functionalized services were established. It also has Crisis and Home Treatment Team. It hosts Low Secure Unit which will be moving to Bridgend in March 2015. It also has locked Rehab Unit along with step down houses opened in 2010 following which Ysbryd y Coed, a 60-bed unit for older people with dementia was opened in 2012.

Swansea University College of Medicine

Swansea University College of Medicine Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) programme was established in 2004. For the first few years graduate entry medical students starting in Swansea completed their medical education with the University of Cardiff but the GEM course is now based entirely in Swansea and partner hospitals in West Wales. The first cohort of students to complete the new GEM curriculum graduated in 2014.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Full GMC registration
• Medically qualified - MBBS or equivalent

Desirable

• Certificate or additional qualification in medical education/teaching methods MRCPsych

Experience

Essential

• Clinical Fellow / Trust Grade / Specialty Doctor or Junior doctor in training with a minimum of 12 months clinical experience in psychiatry

Desirable

• 3 years Core Training, or equivalent, in psychiatry

Medical Education

Essential

• Evidence of contribution to a teaching programme Proven interest in teaching undergraduate medical students. Displays an enthusiasm for teaching

Desirable

• Demonstrable evidence of developing or using novel / digital teaching techniques

Teaching

Essential

• Track record of involvement in teaching as a medical student or junior doctor An understanding of the problems and issues faced by Medical Students

Professionalism

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of the responsibilities of being a role model for students learning in the clinical environment
• Facilitates learning in an open, supportive and encouraging manner.

Desirable

• Publication in topics related to medical education

Management

Essential

• Understanding of NHS structures

Desirable

• Leadership positions as a student or junior doctor

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