UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY
DIVISION OF APPLIED MEDICINE
SCREDS CLINICAL LECTURERS IN PSYCHIATRY
REF NO: YMD010A
FURTHER PARTICULARS FOR APPLICANTS
1.
THE POST
The University of Aberdeen is committed to the Scottish Clinical Research Excellence Development Scheme
(http://www.scotmt.scot.nhs.uk/media/7513/screds.pdf) and the long-term aim of nurturing and developing future
clinical academic leaders. Accordingly, the School of Medicine and Dentistry, with NHS Education for Scotland
NES North of Scotland Deanery, is pleased to offer exciting opportunities for individuals wishing to pursue such
an academic career. Based in the department of Mental Health within the School of Medicine and Dentistry
(Division of Applied Medicine), you will join a committed and enthusiastic team of clinicians, researchers and
educators, providing an excellent opportunity to develop expertise through a planned programme of specialty
training ensuring professional, academic and personal development. The postholders will be located on the
Cornhill site.
An 80:20 split in clinical training/research time is envisaged over the duration of the post, with a maximum of 20%
training time being allowed for academic activity during specialty training. It is intended that this time would be
used to prepare an application for out of programme research and studentship funding to pursue a higher degree (if
a higher degree is not already held) and to complete writing up of a thesis after completion of the necessary
research. Candidates should already hold an NTN in their current deanery although candidates are strongly
advised to discuss their application with their current Training Programme Director and Postgraduate Dean.
The posts which are tenable from appointment for the duration of the training period until attainment of CCT are
designed individuals with demonstrable academic aspirations who wish to pursue an academic career and gives
opportunities both for clinical and research training, according to need.
Research
The post holders will be expected to undertake research that will build on areas of collaborative strength within
the mental health department The post holders will be given tuition in research methodology both within the
department or within the wider University and their work will be supported by the existing teams within the
Psychiatry research group.
Current projects focus on the investigation and treatment of affective disorder, including advanced neuoimaging
studies; neuropsychological projects; clinical trials; and quantitative and qualitative examinations of the treatment
of depression in primary care.
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Results from the 2008 RAE Exercise reveal that 96% of the School of Medicine and Dentistry’s submitted
research was recognised as being of international quality. Furthermore, 73% of the School’s research
submission to the 2008 RAE was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.
2.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
Clinical Duties
The appointees will have appropriate honorary status with NHS Grampian. The appointees will receive full
competency based training in General Adult Psychiatry or Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Teaching
There is a regular commitment to the teaching of medical students in the undergraduate teaching programme,
which presents an excellent opportunity to develop teaching skills. In addition to the informal teaching of
trainees, lecturers will be invited to give occasional postgraduate medical education lectures to relevant
specialists.
3.
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Knowledge
 MBChB or equivalent
 Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
 Holds a UK National Training Number in Psychiatry
Experience
 Able to demonstrate aspiration to academic career
 Track record of contribution to publications in peer-reviewed journals or scientific abstracts.
 Experience in writing scientific articles or presentations at scientific meetings
 Portfolio evidence of satisfactory progress in clinical training programme to date
 Ability to take responsibility for clinical care of patients
 Experience of supervising trainee doctors
Skills
 Aptitude for teaching
 Enquiring, critical approach to work
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills
 Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact constructively with a wide range of colleagues
 Proven organisational abilities, including evidence of effective time-management and negotiating skills.
 Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own
 Ability to think creatively and innovatively and impart enthusiasm or subject
 Committed to multidisciplinary team working
4.
THE UNIVERSITY
The University of Aberdeen, which was founded in 1495, has over 14,000 full-time matriculated students. The
University is a world-class research-led centre of learning and teaching excellence. Coupled with excellent
externally judged research output, the biological and medical researchers have a strong track record of grant
income from the UK research councils, EU and medical charities.
The University has two campuses. The King’s College Campus retains its medieval layout and village
atmosphere, its fifteenth-century cathedral and its sixteenth-century university chapel. This heritage is fused with
modern, state of the art facilities for research, learning and teaching, making it fit for purpose for the students of
today. The Foresterhill campus is approximately 1.5 miles from King’s, a comfortable walk through leafy streets.
The University currently employs more than 3900 staff including 1600 academics and has a turnover in excess
of £200 million per annum (web site: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/). In total eleven of our research areas were ranked
among the top 25% in the UK: Agriculture and Food Sciences, Computing Science, English Language and
Literature, French, Health Services Research, History, Hospital Based Clinical Subjects (which included Medical
Genetics), Pure Mathematics, Town and Country Planning, Sociology, Theology and Divinity and Religious
Studies.
The University's organisational and management structure operates within a devolved managerial and budget
system. Academic units are grouped into three colleges: Arts and Social Sciences, Life Sciences and Medicine
and Physical Sciences.
5.
THE COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES AND MEDICINE
The College comprises the following Schools:
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School of Biological Sciences (Head of School: Prof Liz Baggs)
School of Medicine and Dentistry (Head of School: Prof David Reid)
School of Medical Sciences (Head of School: Prof Colin McCaig)
School of Psychology (Head of School: Prof Neil Macrae)
The Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health (Director: Professor Peter Morgan)
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Graduate School (Director of School: Dr Bernadette Connolly)
The College of Life Sciences and Medicine was created in 2003 as part of organisational restructuring
throughout the University. The College, led by Professor Michael Greaves, Head of College, is home to over
3000 undergraduate and postgraduate students, and is internationally recognised as a research-led centre for
teaching excellence and increasingly commercialisation. The College is run by the Head of College and Heads
of School, who have line management responsibilities, with strategic direction and leadership provided by
College Directors of Teaching and Research together with Directors of Research Institutes.
The main driver for the creation of Colleges was to create organisational units large enough to provide
managerial, budgetary and planning capacity to determine their own strategies and to manage their own
finances at a high level. Within Colleges, structures have been created to support staff and to promote research
and teaching collaborations. This also applies to working between the Colleges to ensure interdisciplinary work
flourishes.
The School of Medicine and Dentistry and School of Medical Sciences are co-located within two research
institutes on the Foresterhill Medical Campus: the Institute of Applied Health Sciences and the Institute of
Medical Sciences. The Schools of Biological Sciences (with its Institute of Biological and Environmental
Sciences) and Psychology are located a short distance away on the historic Old Aberdeen Campus, which
houses the rest of the University. The College has benefitted from significant estate and infrastructure
development in the past 10 years with refurbishments of its Polwarth, Cruickshank and Zoology buildings, the
last incorporating a science teaching facility. New build projects have created the Institute of Medical Sciences,
the Medical Research Facility, the Health Sciences Building, the deep sea facilities at Oceanlab 1 and 2, the Life
Science Innovation building and the Suttie Centre for Teaching and Learning in Healthcare.
Looking ahead, a major new build project is in planning, a new home at Foresterhill for the Rowett Research
Institute that merged with the University in summer 2008.
6.
NHS GRAMPIAN
NHS Grampian incorporates Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Aberdeen
Maternity Hospital on the Foresterhill site, one of the largest single site teaching hospitals in Europe. Other
sites include Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen and Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin, as well as terminal care facilities at
Roxburghe House.
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, has a complement of 975 beds and is situated to the north-west of
Aberdeen city on the teaching hospital site with the Medical School of the University of Aberdeen. This is the
principal adult acute hospital of the Grampian Area providing a complete range of medical and surgical
specialities including General Medicine and allied specialities (Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology,
Infectious Diseases, Neurology, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Haematology, Nephrology, Oncology, Dermatology,
Blood Transfusion, Rheumatology and Geriatrics), General Surgery and allied specialities (Cardiothoracic,
Vascular, Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, Plastics, Dental, ENT, Burns, Transplantation, Ophthalmology), ITU, A &
E, Radiotherapy and Anaesthetics. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary is also a major tertiary referral centre for the North
and North East of Scotland in a number of specialities.
Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital is the major tertiary referral centre for children in the North-East Scotland.
The new Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital (RACH) provides a comprehensive range of paediatric services.
The facility, which opened on 25th January 2004, replaces the previous children's hospital built in 1929 and is
sited on the existing hospital campus with a direct bridge link to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on the Foresterhill
site. The Combined Child Health Service provides acute and community child health services across Grampian
and to some children from Tayside, Highland, Orkney and Shetland. The Service was established in 1999 and
provides all secondary and tertiary acute paediatric services.
Aberdeen Maternity Hospital is the tertiary referral centre for maternity care for North-East Scotland, In
addition to a long history of delivering excellent clinical services, the hospital continues to have worldwide impact
in developing and improving maternity care. Clinically based studies can benefit from the population based
Aberdeen Maternity and Neonatal Databank, which has prospectively recorded information about all Aberdeen
city births for more than fifty years, and ongoing interests in fertility and aetiology of congenital malformations.
Further information about NHS Grampian is available from http://nhsgrampian.org/.
Healthcare in Scotland is devolved from UK Government, and the strategic direction of NHS Scotland policy and
funding comes to NHS Grampian from Scottish Government. A key difference between Scottish and rest of the
UK services at this time is that Genetics service funding is not dependent upon the number of patients seen.
7.
NORTH OF SCOTLAND PSYCHIATRY
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Mental Health Services Clinical Management Board of NHS GRAMPIAN is responsible for the provision of
psychiatric services to Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray and to Orkney. In-patient psychiatric care is
provided for the Shetland population. NHS Grampian embraces the acute services, mental health, primary care
and other services across Grampian. The population covered by the Mental Health Services Clinical
Management Board is 528,400, of whom approximately 40% live in Aberdeen. The area enjoys a high standard
of living, although drug abuse has emerged as a major problem in recent years.
A full redevelopment of ROYAL CORNHILL HOSPITAL, which is located close to the centre of Aberdeen is now
complete. This new hospital includes acute and continuing care wards, Day Hospitals, central treatment
complex (Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and ECT suite) and forensic and intensive psychiatric care unit.
A 25-bedded acute psychiatric ward is located in Dr. Gray’s Hospital, Elgin. Adult learning disability services are
provided from Elmwood close to the Royal Cornhill Hospital Site.
A Day Nursery is located on the Royal Cornhill Hospital site.
The Mental Health Services are divided into four Clinical Directorates, Adult Mental Health (including the
Adolescent and Child & Family Mental Health Services), Old Age Psychiatry, Specialisms (incorporating
Rehabilitation, Forensic Psychiatry, Liaison Psychiatry, Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy, Substance Misuse)
and Learning Disabilities. Services in Moray are managed jointly by the relevant Directorates and a local
management team. Child and Family Psychiatry is located on the acute services site at Foresterhill.
The hospital has fully approved schemes for Foundation training and Specialist Psychiatric Training (Core
Trainees/Specialty Registrars 1-6). There are also slots for the Aberdeen based General Practice Vocational
Training Scheme.
There are designated seminar rooms with full audio-visual and video teleconferencing facilities supported by
audio-visual technician.
OTHER SERVICES
There are six Consultant Psychiatrists including one Honorary Consultant/Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Child and Family Psychiatry at Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital.
Learning Disability services are provided from Elmwood on the Royal Cornhill Hospital site.
DESCRIPTION OF HOSPITALS AND RELATED FACILITIES
Royal Cornhill Hospital (Aberdeen) has a bed complement of 416 and provides a comprehensive range of
general and specialist psychiatric services. A new Nursery for the children of members of staff is located on this
site.
Community Rehabilitation Unit (Polmuir Road, Aberdeen) has five two-bedroom flats for patients undergoing
rehabilitation.
Great Western Lodge (Aberdeen) is a “halfway” residential facility located near the centre of Aberdeen. It
provides for eight forensic in-patients who are preparing for discharge.
Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital (located on the site of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at Foresterhill) houses
the department for Child and Family Psychiatry with day-patient and out-patient facilities.
Dr. Gray’s Hospital (Elgin, approximately 65 miles from Aberdeen) has a 25 bedded ward serving Moray.
Community Hospitals provide in-patient places as follows:-
Muirton, Seafield Hospital, Buckie (30), Spynie Hospital, Elgin (25), Buchanhaven, Ugie Hospital, Peterhead (30),
Findlater, Chalmers Hospital, Banff (12), Ward 2, Maud Hospital (25), Gordon Villa, Jubilee Hospital, Huntly (12),
Ashcroft, Inverurie Hospital (26), Scolty, Glen O’Dee Hospital, Banchory (30), Bervie, Kincardine Community
Hospital (12). In addition there is an 8 place Day Unit at Seafield Hospital, Buckie and a Day Hospital with 12 places
at Ugie Hospital, Peterhead.
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THE POST
STAFFING OF PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES
Consultants (National Health Services)
Aberdeen based Consultants
Dr. J. Platt
Dr. J.S. Callender
Dr. A.G. Oswald
Dr. R. S. Badial
Dr. A. J. Shand
Dr. A.N. Palin
Dr. L. A. McCrone
Dr. P. Sclare
Dr. J. Lolley
Dr. R. Hamilton
Dr. C. Robertson
Dr. S. Wilson
Dr. O. Runcie
Dr. L. Venkatraman
Dr. J. Oliver
Dr. K. MacKay
Dr M Colyer
Dr. E. Willox
Dr S Bheemaraddi
Dr. J. Warrington
Dr. R. Arnold
Dr. R. Athawes
Dr. T. MacEwan
Dr. A. Haddow
Dr. J. Murdoch
Dr. S. Barton
Dr. A. Lawrie
Dr. S. Vaitheswaran
Dr K. Joshi
Dr. A. Gilchrist
Dr. K. Starr
Dr. L. Brown
Dr. C. Gilmour
Dr. M. Acevedo
Dr. A. Rasalam
Vacancy
Vacancy
Dr. J. Morris
Dr. M. Bremner
Dr. J. Boyd
Dr. P. Larmour
Dr. L Treliving
Dr. P. Crockett
Dr. R. Goldbeck
Dr. K. Nicoll
Dr. A.D.T. Robinson
Dr. B. Davidson
Dr S. Anderson
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry (part-time)
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry (part-time)
General Adult Psychiatry (Aberdeen/Orkney)
General Adult Psychiatry (part-time)
General Adult Psychiatry (part-time)
Learning Disability
Learning Disability (part-time)
Learning Disability
Forensic Learning Disability (part-time)
Old Age Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry (part-time)
Old Age Psychiatry (part-time)
Old Age Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry (part-time)
Old Age Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry (part-time)
Old Age Psychiatry
Liaison of Old Age Psychiatry
Adolescent Psychiatry
Adolescent Psychiatry (part-time)
Adolescent Psychiatry (part-time)
Adolescent Psychiatry (part-time)
Child and Family Psychiatry
Child and Family Psychiatry
Learning Disability/Child and Family Psychiatry
Child and Family Psychiatry
Child and Family Psychiatry
Eating Disorders Service, Eden Unit
Forensic Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy/Eating Disorders Service
Liaison Psychiatry
Rehabilitation (part-time)
Substance Misuse
Substance Misuse
Alcohol (Aberdeen City)
Dr Gray’s Hospital, Elgin
Dr. M. Doherty
Dr. C. Hart
Dr. J. Hosie
Dr. A. Hodges
Dr. T. Parrott
Dr. G. Jones
Dr. J. Todd
Dr. A. Osunrinade
General Adult Psychiatry and Liaison Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (part-time)
General Adult Psychiatry and Learning Disabilities
General Adult Psychiatry
General Adult Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry
Old Age Psychiatry
Honorary Consultants (University)
Professor Ian Reid
Professor Claude Wischik
Professor St Clair
Dr. Justin Williams
Head of Department - Mental Health
(Department of Child Health)
There are five Associate Specialists, seven full-time and five part-time Staff Grade/Specialty Doctors in Aberdeen.
There are two Associate Specialists (one full time and one part-time) and one part-time Staff Grade Doctor in Elgin.
There is an establishment of 39 Specialist/Specialty Registrars, four GP Specialty Registrar slots and six
Foundation House Officer 2s in Aberdeen. There is one Specialty Registrar, one GP Specialty Registrar and
one Foundation House Officer 2 in Elgin.
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching is an integral part of the service. Clinical research is encouraged by the
Board and is supported by the Clinical Research Centre and an on-site library. The appointee will have access to
the NHS e-Library. The hospital is a short distance from Aberdeen University Medical School on the Foresterhill site
which has a full medical library and other research facilities.
There is a team system linked to Primary Care within the Psychiatric Service.
In Royal Cornhill Hospital there are designated seminar rooms with full audio-visual and video teleconferencing
facilities supported by an audio-visual technician.
Duties
Successful applicants will join the Training rotation.
(i)
Clinical - All teams have full secretarial support. Office accommodation will be available.
The applicant will take part in the Specialist Registrar/Specialty Registrar rotation. Out-of-hours duties
currently include
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supervision of Specialty Registrars 1-3 at Royal Cornhill Hospital ;
supervision of assessment of psychiatric emergencies arising in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and other
non-psychiatric hospitals;
attendance at handover meetings held at 9.30am on Saturday and Sunday mornings and, with the
on-call consultant, assessment of patients admitted in the previous 24 hours.
At present an on-call rota is in operation but due to the introduction of the European Working Time Regulations
that now apply to doctors in training, rotas are constantly under review. If there is any change applicants will be
advised of this at interview.
(ii)
Teaching - In addition to the informal teaching of trainees, Specialty Registrars will be invited to lecture
on the Postgraduate Teaching Programme.
There is a regular commitment to the teaching of medical undergraduates.
(iii)
Administrative - There are regular meetings among the Specialist Registrars/Specialty Registrars, and
attendance is encouraged at the meetings of the Psychiatric Medical Advisory Committee.
(iv)
Clinical Audit and Clinical Governance - Active programmes of Clinical Audit and Governance exist
within the Mental Health Services Division. Specialty Registrars will be expected to play a full part in
audit and clinical governance.
Hours of Work – In line with the nationally agreed hours limits for junior medical staffing the following
has been agreed for junior doctors working within NHS Grampian. The maximum contracted hours will
be no more onerous than 72 hours for an on-call rota, 48 hours for a partial shift and 48 hours for a full
shift.
Cover for Colleagues – The allocation of a Banding is prospective and therefore includes an allowance
for cover for colleagues on annual and study leave. The pay banding for the post will reflect the working
pattern in operation from your first day of taking up appointment. This will be advised to you on offer of
appointment, after interview.
(d)
Location of Duties
Whilst the Cornhill site is the main base for all Specialist Registrar/Specialty Registrar posts, duties will be
carried out according to catchment team or specialty attachment. Emergency duties may be undertaken at other
Hospitals including Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and Woodend Hospital. Duties may also include work at other
areas covered by the Psychiatric Service including Health Centres, Surgeries, the Half-Way Houses at Great
Western Road and Polmuir Road (Aberdeen), team domiciliary visits and forensic work at Peterhead and
Craiginches Prisons. Appointees will not be required to rotate to Elgin, although this may be arranged should
the appointee so wish.
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Emergency Duties
Junior medical staff will also be required to perform duties in occasional circumstances at the request of a
consultant, in consultation where practicable, with colleagues, both senior and junior.
It has been agreed between the professions and the Department that while junior medical staff accept that they
will perform such duties it is stressed that additional commitments arising under this sub-section are exceptional
and that junior staff will not be required to undertake work of this kind for prolonged periods or on a regular basis.
STUDY AND TRAINING
The post is approved by the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and facilities for
study leave are readily available.
Attendance is encouraged at academic meetings, including meetings of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
The Office of the Postgraduate Dean regularly issues bulletins giving details of various postgraduate courses.
During University term there is a weekly lecture course which, while principally designed for trainees studying for
the MRC Psych examinations, can be a source of continuing education for Specialty Registrars. Attendance is
expected at the weekly journals club and case conferences at which patients of special interest are presented
and discussed.
8.
NORTH OF SCOTLAND DEANERY
The NHS Education for Scotland (NES) North of Scotland Deanery is one of four Deaneries in Scotland. We
aspire to excellence in our programmes and have as our driving objectives a trainee-centric approach to our
work, supporting our educational environments with information to assist their quality improvement, and ensuring
we seek new knowledge and improved ways of training the future medical workforce. The Deanery covers a
wide geographical area and includes the Health Boards of Grampian, Highland, Shetland, Orkney and Western
Isles. The Deanery manages a wide range of deanery-based and national specialty training programmes from
modern offices on the main hospital campuses (Forest Grove House in Aberdeen and the Centre for Health
Sciences in Inverness). The convenient location of the Aberdeen Office, co-located with the University Teaching
Hospitals, Medical and Dental Schools and Research Institutes, enables close contact and working relationships
with our academic and NHS colleagues.
9. THE CITY OF ABERDEEN AND ABERDEENSHIRE
With the population approaching 250,000, Aberdeen is big enough to provide all the advantages of city life, yet
compact enough to enjoy the more intimate atmosphere usually associated with small towns. Many university
staff live in the more rural Aberdeenshire, which offers not only high quality schooling and small town and village
life, but also immediate access to the outdoors, from the Cairngorms National Park to some of the longest sandy
beaches in the UK.
Aberdeen caters for a wide range of tastes in sporting and cultural activities. The University of Aberdeen sports
village (http://www.aberdeensportsvillage.com/) is a very new massive new sports centre for recreation and
fostering sports excellence. A large scale swimming facility is in the process of construction, bringing a 50m pool
the North-East. To find out more about Aberdeen and its surrounding area go to www.VisitScotland.com and
click on Aberdeen on the map.
10.
SALARY AND TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
Salary will be at the appropriate point on the salary scale for Staff not holding Honorary Consultant Contracts
salary scale (£30,992 - £53,663 per annum) with placement according to qualifications and experience.
The posts are tenable from appointment for the duration of the training period until attainment of CCT. These
appointments will be made subject to the usual terms and conditions of employment of the University.
Should you require a visa to undertake paid employment in the UK you will be required to fulfil the minimum
points criteria to be granted a Certificate of Sponsorship and Tier 2 visa. As appropriate, at the time an offer of
appointment is made you will be asked to demonstrate that you fulfil the criteria in respect of financial
maintenance and competency in English. Please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Karen Bremner, HR Adviser, for
further information on this.
It is the policy of the University, in line with the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, that the
post holder is a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme. Any offer of employment will be
conditional on a satisfactory Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme Record check being received.
11.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Professor Ian Reid on telephone no. (01224 557951 or
557602) or by email to i.reid@abdn.ac.uk
PLEASE DO NOT SEND CV’S OR APPLICATIONS FORMS TO THE SCHOOL OR PROFESSOR IAN REID
Online application forms and further information is available at www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs.
Please quote reference YMD010A on all correspondence.
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 30 March 2013.
The University pursues a policy of equal opportunities in the appointment and promotion of staff.
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
PERSON SPECIFICATION
POST NO:
YMD010A
TITLE: SCREDS CLINICAL LECTUERs IN PSYCHIATRY
GRADE:
Clinical
SECTION : SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY / DIVISION OF
APPLIED MEDICINE
ESSENTIAL
1.
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
Academic, technical and professional
education and training.
2.
WORK AND OTHER RELEVANT
EXPERIENCE (INCLUDING
TRAINING)
e g Specialist knowledge, levels of
experience, skills, supervisory
experience, research.
3.
PERSONAL QUALITIES AND
ABILITIES
e g Initiative, leadership, ability to
work on own or with others,
communication skills.
4.
OTHER
e g Special circumstances (if any)
appropriate to the job such as
unsocial hours, travelling, physical
requirements etc.
DESIRABLE
 MBChB or equivalent
 Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment
 Holds a UK National Training Number in Psychiatry
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Intercalated BSc or previous
research degree
 Able to demonstrate aspiration to academic career
 Track record of contribution to publications in peer-reviewed journals or
scientific abstracts.
 Experience in writing scientific articles or presentations at scientific meetings
 Portfolio evidence of satisfactory progress in clinical training programme to
date
 Ability to take responsibility for clinical care of patients
 Experience of supervising trainee doctors
 Aptitude for teaching
 Enquiring, critical approach to work
 Excellent written and verbal communication skills
 Good interpersonal skills with the ability to interact constructively with a wide
range of colleagues
 Proven organisational abilities, including evidence of effective timemanagement and negotiating skills.
 Ability to work as part of a team as well as on own
 Ability to think creatively and innovatively and impart enthusiasm or subject
 Committed to multidisciplinary team working
 Caring attitude to patients
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Previous research experience
Demonstrate commitment to
research through proven ability
to complete research projects
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Evidence of high quality
teaching delivery