Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Teaching Registrar
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (12 months due to SIFT funding)
- Hours
- 40 hours per week (This is a full time post – 40 hours per week Normal Working Days only – No on call commitment)
- Job ref
- 130-52726798-0825
- Employer
- Swansea Bay University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cefn Coed Hospital
- Town
- Sketty, Cockett
- Salary
- £46,324 - £71,814 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Tutor/ Teaching Registrar in Psychiatry
NHS Medical & Dental: Teaching Registrar
We expect everyone that works for the Health Board, regardless of their role, to share and uphold our values in all that they do:
- Caring for each other - in every human contact in all of our communities and each of our hospitals.
- Working together - as patients, families, carers, staff and communities so that we always put patients first
- Always improving - so that we are at our best for every patient and for each other.
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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details, in relation to this post please click on the supporting documentation section to find the full job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration
- Medically qualified – MBBS or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Certificate or additional qualification in medical education / teaching methods MRCPsych
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical Fellow / Trust Grade / Specialty Doctor or Junior doctor in training with a minimum of 12 months clinical experience in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- 3 years Core Training, or equivalent, in psychiatry
Medical Education
Essential criteria
- Evidence of contribution to a teaching programme Proven interest in teaching undergraduate medical students. Displays an enthusiasm for teaching
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable evidence of developing or using novel / digital teaching techniques
Teaching
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Publication in topics related to medical education
Management
Essential criteria
- Understanding of NHS structures
Desirable criteria
- Leadership positions as a student or junior doctor
Applicant requirements
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.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Julia Kramer
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01792 703312
- Additional information
Ruth Wolfe - Medical School - for any informal queries.
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