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PDS Opportunity
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Contact person
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Further information
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Addiction psychiatry
Quality improvement work with CMHT
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Dr Alison Battersby Consultant psychiatrist and CMHT lead consultant, Livewell SW
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There are opportunities to gain experience in supervised work with people with dual diagnosis. This could be based either in CMHT or the complex needs team. You will learn structured ways to work with substance misuse.
There are opportunities to learn about further integrating CMHT with primary care. These include deprescribing projects but not limited to that.
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Plymouth CMHT complex needs team and primary care
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Homelessness Mental Health
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Dr Bernadette Rheeder, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director, Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
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The Homelessness Vulnerability Liaison Service is a dynamic and ambitious multi-disciplinary team serving the homeless population in Cornwall. There is an opportunity to provide Psychiatry input to the team supported and supervised by Dr Rheeder. This is a great opportunity to work with underserved and excluded groups and gain dual diagnosis experience. There is also ample opportunity to get involved with research and service development if interested.
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Cornwall
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Research in CFT and beyond
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Dr Simon Vann Jones
Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry, CFT and NIHR Specialty Research Lead for Dementia, SW Peninsula
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Interested in research? Then contact me! I have supported previous STs to gain exposure to clinical trials from artificial intelligence to cannabis, from medical support through to NIHR Associate Principal Investigator roles. Providing medical support to a research trial is a great way of testing the waters and hugely appreciated by the R&D teams and may help build confidence to encourage you into becoming a Principal Investigator. I am also happy to link you in with research going on in Devon, Somerset and Livewell who are as active and enthusiastic as we are in Cornwall
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Various throughout the SW Peninsula region
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Digital mental health at CFT
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Dr Ellen Wilkinson
Chief Clinical Information Officer at CFT
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There are plenty of opportunities for a trainee to become involved in digital projects, including new applications, implementation and transformation, records optimisation, using data intelligently and more. Very flexible time commitment.
Please get in contact with me to find out more!
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Mostly working remotely, with some workshops and meetings.
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Devon Adult Autism Interventions Team
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Consultant Psychiatrist, DPT
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There are few autism services nationally that provide support around placement breakdown, delivering autism informed practice on inpatient wards or solution finding in complex cases for autistic people. Devon Adult Autism Interventions Team (DAAIT) is one of these services and we’re happy to offer experiences in a variety of ways and timeframes or link in with autism assessment and ADHD services more widely for a full neurodiversity programme.
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Devon (including Plymouth)
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Experience in working with people with LD
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Dr Simon Bonell, Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disabilities, Plymouth CLDT
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Excellent opportunity for trainees in any subspecialty to gain experience of working with people with LD. Come and observe clinics, carry out new patient assessments and work with the MDT. This will be a valuable experience, no matter where you end up working!
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Plymouth (Westbourne, Scott Business Park PL2 2PQ)
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University Student population
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Dr Jason Hancock, consultant psychiatrist University CMHT
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
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There is an opportunity to gain clinical skills and experience supporting university students requiring input of the university CMHT. This population consists of people often at a transitional age (18 – 25), with a unique set of challenges and a high proportion of international students. This opportunity can be designed with the trainee in mind. It will likely involve attendance at University MDTs including those attended by University wellbeing services, and closely supervised clinical work. There is also the opportunity to become involved in service development and improvement.
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MDTs take place online with clinical work taking place face to face at Reed Hall (Streatham campus) Exeter. These can take place online if needed.
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Research in older adults and dementia
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Dr Laura Hill, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, DPT
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Please get in touch if you are interested in research or quality improvement projects for older adults and particularly those with dementia. There are opportunities to collaborate with the University of Exeter and local projects on “living well” with dementia and end of life care in dementia.
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Exeter
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Dr Emily Ramsay & Dr Rebekah Bourne, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists, Devon Community Forensic Services
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Devon Community Forensic Services offer a range of opportunities for trainees with no past experience in forensic psychiatry to develop their learning and transferrable skills to better inform their usual area of practice. Topics include; developing forensic risk assessment skills, exploring the interplay between mental health services and the Courts, the roles and limitations of the Expert Witness and psychosexual risk and pathology. Trainees will receive 1:1 supervision with a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, and the opportunity to work alongside our specialist MDT.
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Langdon Hospital, Dawlish (Devon) and remotely via MS Teams
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Forensic secure care
In-patient Women secure services and In-patient Learning Disability (LD) and Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) secure services
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Prison transfer care pathway
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Dr Partha Gangopadhyay
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
Former TPD in Forensic Psychiatry (Scotland)
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Trainees would have opportunities to gain experience in-
· Inpatient women secure care (medium and low secure)
· In-patient LD and ASC secure care
· Prison transfer care (secure care-pathway for prisoners transferring to secure hospital for treatment)
This placement would be most suitable for Forensic trainees looking for experience in the above within a well-established secure hospital. It is also an excellent opportunity for trainees in any subspecialty, to gain experience of working with people requiring in-patient secure care. Please get in touch to discuss further.
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Wellesley hospital
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Working with personality disorder and complex emotional needs – service and practice development
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Dr Dan Beales, Consultant
Medical Psychotherapist, DPT
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I am involved in developing treatment pathways for personality disorder and complex emotional need. This provides opportunities for learning about service development and commissioning. I also have extensive experience of working with and understanding complex presentations and comorbidity. This provides opportunities for developing training, developing the role of assessment and formulation, audit, quality improvement and clinical research in this area
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Exeter and other locations throughout Devon
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Psychosexual medicine
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Dr Shilpa Sivaraman
Locum Consultant Psychiatrist,
Exeter home treatment team
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I had started a QIP on sexual dysfunctions in patients under mental health team with a view to identify the extent of the problem and to see how confident are our clinicians in identifying the sexual difficulties and managing these difficulties. Often sexual difficulties are missed or not prioritised though they are a common side effect of psychotropics. I am hoping to assess this gap in the services with a view to identify the need of a specialist clinic for managing these.
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Various teams in DPT
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Nature-based approaches implementation evaluation
Patient participation
Lifestyle Medicine
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Dr Beth Chapman Consultant Psychiatrist CAMHS
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Cornwall is leading the way in innovative approaches to nature-based practice and lifestyle medicine. There will be any number of opportunities to get involved with evaluation of training, implementation, content co-design, QI as this evolves.
These can also be linked with the trust sustainability strategy and meeting carbon net zero targets.
We actively support our children and young people to contribute to other portfolio studies so there are always opportunities in other clinical areas or research.
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Cornwall
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Medical Education opportunities within the MRCPsych course
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Consultant Psychiatrist
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Opportunities for Medical Education related leadership, service development, QI, delivery of medical education, or related projects, within the MRCPsych course. In the past trainees have used the MRCPsych course as a way of having a ready-made audience for medical education developments, for example, trainees undertaking MedEd higher qualification. There is scope to take on a leadership role with delivering part of the course to developing something new within the course.
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Flexible across the trusts.
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| Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme |
Royal College of Psychiatrists |
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“Through the combination of a high impact leadership development programme, with a local apprenticeship model, fellows proactively engage in leadership projects and are mentored by senior medical leaders within their organisations.”
Please see the Royal College of Psychiatrists website for full information:
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https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/training/your-training/leadership-management-fellow-scheme/scheme-overview |
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Post Graduate Certificates (PG certs) in:
- Clinical education
- Healthcare leadership and management
- Global Health
- Health research methods
- Genomic medicine
- Health data science
- Public health
- Clinical practice, management and education
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Diploma in Geriatric Medicine
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This is a credential awarded by the Royal college of Physicians, and comprises 2 examination components with self directed learning.
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https://www.bgs.org.uk/DGM
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Mentoring
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There are mentoring opportunities within the school of psychiatry. Please get in touch with the school to find out more. In the past trainees have completed mentoring courses.
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Psychological Therapies
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There are numerous opportunities to use your PDS time to further develop your skills and experience in psychotherapies.
You may wish to contact the psychotherapy lead for your trust to enquire regarding opportunities.
In the past trainees have completed post graduate qualifications in specific psychological therapies.
Please note that you are not expected to use you PDS time to complete the psychotherapy competencies required within your training.
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Medical Student Teaching
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Please contact the medical student teaching lead for your trust to enquire regarding opportunities for teaching, leadership and service development roles with regards to medical student teaching.
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Roles within the Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The Psychiatric Training Committee (PTC) represents Psychiatry trainees within the UK. There are many ways you can get involved and support the PTC and fellow trainees.
Please look at the PTC page on the RCPsych website for more information:
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/training/your-training/psychiatric-trainees-committee-supporting-you/how-you-can-get-involved
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Local Representative Roles
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There are a number of local advanced training representative roles including the advanced trainee representative, less than full time trainee representative and the IGM representative.
Please enquire with the deanery and your colleagues regarding these roles.
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