Academic Clinical Fellow, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Job Category: Health care professional
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: England
Company Name: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company Overview

UCLH provides first-class acute and specialist services in six hospitals in central London: University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing, the Macmillan Cancer Centre and University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street) Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery at Queen Square, Cleveland Street and Chalfont Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health Hospital for Tropical Diseases Our mission is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education and world-class research. In partnership with University College London (UCL) we are one of the country’s five comprehensive biomedical research centres. We are a member of UCL Partners which brings together some of the UK’s world-renowned medical research centres and hospitals.

About the job

We are delighted to offer this unique opportunity for an Academic Clinical Fellow in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to join the Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine service. This is a 12-month fixed term post from April 2025 – March 2026.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Academic Clinical Fellow looking to broaden their experience in multidisciplinary medical education alongside clinical work with children and young people within a paediatric acute hospital setting. You will be joining an experienced Child & Adolescent Psychiatry team embedded and fully integrated into the UCLH Children & Young People Division.

In your academic role, you will be deputy to the UCL Medical School Child & Adolescent Mental Health Lead, taking a Leadership role in overseeing, managing and helping deliver the Year 5 Medical Student programme. This will include recruiting lecturers to deliver sessions, developing educational materials, delivering lectures/workshops on-line and in person. You will work alongside the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry team, and with 2 Academic Clinical Fellows in Paediatrics within the Division. Also, with UCL Year 5 Medical School administrators. You will also help to develop and deliver a training programme for Acute Hospital Staff on Children & Young People Mental Health.

In your clinical role, you will join a vibrant multidisciplinary team to support paediatric liaison work to a highly complex and diverse patient group. The Child and Adolescent Psychological Medicine/ Services provides assessments, consultation and interventions for patients being treated at UCLH with medical conditions and experiencing emotional, psychological, behavioural difficulties or mental illness. This includes for children and young people presenting in mental health / psychosocial crisis to the Emergency Department, as well as patients receiving treatment as in-patients or out-patients under one of the UCLH teams within the Children & Young People (formerly Paediatric & Adolescent) Division.

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