Clinical Tutor/ Teaching Registrar in Psychiatry

Job overview

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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