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.

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 1 st and 2 nd 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

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.
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