Clinical Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry

Job overview

CNWL are looking for a Clinical Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry on a part-time basis (3 days per week) at the Riverside Centre based in Hillingdon Hospital

This is solely an education role with no clinical placement forming part of the post, and significant opportunities to gain experience of developing, delivering and evaluating teaching and training as a core learning objective.

If you have previous experience in Psychiatry within the NHS and are interested, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The post holder has a key role in facilitating undergraduate educational activities within CNWL (Hillingdon site), but also more widely within the Year 3 Psychiatry course. The post offers extensive teaching opportunities and responsibilities. The post holder will develop their undergraduate education and teaching administration skills, working closely with CNWL’s Director of Undergraduate Education and Module and Specialty Leads.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Facilitate the Year 3 introductory lecture programme at the start of each rotation to a cohort of approximately 20 students.  •    Support the DUE, Module and Specialty Leads to ensure the smooth running of the lecture programme.  •    Develop, enhance and evaluate the lecture programme.  •    Deliver teaching on a variety of topics that is clinically focused, stimulates interest in Psychiatry and supports students to meet learning outcomes as highlighted within their curriculum.  •    Explore new and innovative techniques / teaching methods to deliver the curriculum. •    Develop formative assessments within CNWL by leading on the provision of centralised mock-OSCEs (clinical exam) sessions. •    Host revision lectures (all students) and exam practice sessions (usually students taking re-sit exams).  •    Proactively support the setting of both written and clinical exams for Year 5 (participate in question writing and OSCE station piloting).   •    Facilitate sessions on Ethics (during each rotation).  •    Support the development of the curriculum as Psychiatry is introduced into earlier years. •    Provide support to ST4-6 undergraduate champions and other trainees engaged in teaching.  •    Provide academic support / mentoring to students experiencing welfare / health difficulties, engaging other relevant individuals such as relevant Trust staff, DUE, Module and Specialty Leads. •    Maintain and update the relevant webpages hosted on the student intranet. •    Develop e-learning resources hosted on the student intranet. •    Attend and contribute to CNWL's medical education group (MEG), which has oversight of all BMS-related undergraduate activities within CNWL.