Clinical Teaching Fellow in Psychiatry

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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
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Site Riverside Centre, Hillingdon Hospital Town Hillingdon Salary £52,656 plus £2162 London weighting allowance Salary period Yearly Closing 22/02/2026 23:59

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!

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.

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).

• 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…