Clinical Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry

Cnwlnhshealthcharity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job description

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Main area Psychiatry Grade MT03 Contract 12 months (fixed‑term contract) Hours Part time – 24 hours per week (3 days per week) Job ref 333‑C‑HQ‑L‑0007

Site Riverside Centre, Hillingdon Hospital Town Hillingdon Salary £52,656 plus £2,162 London weighting allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 15/02/2026 23:59

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.

Working for our organisation

Undergraduate Clinical Studies (CNWL) is responsible for delivering clinical placements in Psychiatry for Year 3 students at Brunel Medical School. CNWL (Hillingdon site only) will begin to host medical students from October 2024. Placements last 5 weeks each; there are 5 rotations of placements per academic year. Each placement block will host 12 students. Our placement sites in Hillingdon include Riverside centre, Woodlands Centre and Mill House. The teaching fellow significantly supports the student experience of Psychiatry and attainment of learning outcomes as highlighted within their curriculum.

The undergraduate team comprises the Director of Undergraduate Education (DUE), Module Lead and Teaching Fellow as well as being supported by the Specialty Lead. There is also a dedicated administrator as part of the team. However, there is a virtual team of enthusiastic teachers (including site and firm leads, CT 1-3, ST4-6 and SAS representatives and educators across all medical grades and specialties in Psychiatry).

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.

Person specification

Experience

• Satisfactory progression through medical training to completion of Core training in Psychiatry and at least 2 years NHS experience.
• Prizes or distinctions
• Presentation of work at a national or international meeting
• Publications in peer reviewed journals.

Skilled and Knowledge

• Knowledge of education principles and concepts as applied to professional health care development programmes in the NHS.
• Able to demonstrate personal and educational reasons for applying for this Fellowship.
• Shows a commitment to continuing professional development.
• Knowledge and understanding of Quality Improvement methodology and/or Undergraduate Medical Education.
• Demonstrates knowledge of career pathways in health care education in the NHS
• Good general knowledge / broad interest in academic medicine.
• Research experience
• Demonstrates how the post will benefit patients and staff in future.
• Able to work well in a team.
• Approachable and friendly
• Tolerant and empathetic.
• Evidence of Educational leadership potential
• Good organizational and problem solving skills
• Evidence of delivering a range of teaching (lectures, workshops etc) with good feedback and/or evidence of attending training on teaching

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.