Medical careers and training

We collaborate with Health Education North East, Health Education Yorkshire and Humber and other trusts across the North East, North Cumbria and North Yorkshire to make sure there are plenty of medical training opportunities.

Medical Education

We offer postgraduate and undergraduate medical education.

Postgraduate

At a postgraduate level, you can follow a bespoke resident doctor clinical induction programme. As a resident doctor, you will be allocated to placements that meet your curriculum outcomes. All placements follow a thorough quality monitoring process, giving you access to high-quality training placements.

Undergraduate

We provide quality undergraduate medical student placements across our trust. You can expect a blend of clinical exposure to secondary services alongside teaching aligned to the speciality of psychiatry. Placements make sure each student is able to achieve their required learning outcomes for their medical school and GMC competency requirements.

Our Medical Education team supports with the delivery of medical education placements.

Medical staffing

Our medical staffing department is responsible for the recruitment, employment and development of career grade medical staff. We take part in the Clinical Excellence Awards, which recognise and reward NHS consultant and academic GPs who perform ‘over and above’ the standard expected of their role.

Guardian of safe working

Our guardian of safe working makes sure that junior doctors are being treated fairly and that their working hours and conditions allow them to provide safe, effective care for people who use our services. The guardian provides assurance that the Trust and doctors in approved training programmes are compliant with safe working hours.

Postgraduate training

We work in partnership with Health Education England (North East and Cumbria and also Yorkshire and the Humber) to provide postgraduate support and training.

What can TEWV offer me?

Our dedicated postgraduate team provides specialist support to trainees to ensure curriculum needs are met and portfolios completed.

Weekly postgraduate teaching is available in each of the localities for all doctors to attend and weekly supervision is also provided via their clinical supervisor.

Psychiatry placements

We also provide six monthly psychiatry placements for GP trainees, which will provide them exposure to patients with varying mental health problems and an insight into how inpatient and community services function.

Rotations

We provide four month rotations to foundation doctors from South Tees Acute Trust, County Durham and Darlington Acute Trust, North Tees and Hartlepool Acute Trust, and York Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and Harrogate District Foundation Trust.

Why choose a placement with TEWV?

We can offer you a tailored placement that will be facilitated to meet your needs.

You may wish to undertake this placement because:

You have had little or no previous experience of this specialty
Or you will not spend time on a psychiatric rotation during your foundation years and want to ensure the opportunity to achieve the psychiatric behavioural curriculum outcomes
Or you are fairly sure that you want to make your career in psychiatry, but want to be absolutely certain

What clinical specialities are available to me?

Adult mental health services

Crisis resolution and home treatment teams
Inpatient assessment wards
Inpatient intervention and treatment wards
Outpatient eating disorder service (Tees based)
Rehabilitation and continuing care wards
Young onset dementia team
Affective disorder teams
Psychosis teams

Children and young people’s services

Community teams

Forensic psychiatry service (South Tees area only)

Inpatient medium secure beds male and female – acute and enduring
Low secure enduring inpatient beds
Non forensic low secure
In reach to prison services

Forensic learning disability service (South Tees area only)

Inpatient low secure admission and assessment (male)
Inpatient low secure treatment (male)
Inpatient continuing care (male)
Female – assessment and treatment unit
Community teams

Learning disability services

Multidisciplinary community team working
Inpatient facilities – acute admission and longer-term treatment
Services for adults with profound and multiple disabilities
Learning disability – specific assertive outreach and crisis team
Other specialist teams e.g. epilepsy, challenging behaviour

Liaison psychiatry

Dealing with the interface between physical and psychological health; providing psychiatric assessment and treatment for patients who attend general hospitals, whether outpatient clinics, accident and emergency departments or in-patient wards

Mental health services for older people

Inpatient assessment and treatment beds
Outpatient services
Day services

Tasters

Tasters are available trustwide and will be arranged on an individual basis to meet trainee needs.

Find out more about postgraduate programmes

For more information about our medical development programmes please contact our postgraduate education team by emailing [email protected]

Undergraduate training

We’re here for anyone who is training to become a doctor. Our Undergraduate Medical Education team offers placements to bright undergraduates from local universities.

Email: [email protected]

What are our placements like?

Every placement is different and provides plenty of opportunities to learn.

We’re here to ensure you have a great experience at our trust. We know the choices that you make at this stage of your training will be seen in our region for many future generations.

Our high-quality undergraduate placements can help you to develop core psychiatric skills and knowledge. And we hope that you have a great experience with us and may consider growing your medical carer within our trust.

We are always looking for people with specialist medical training to support people in our local communities.

What placements do we offer?

We offer a range of opportunities to learn within our specialist mental health and learning disability trust.

You may undertake a placement in a wide range of teams including:

Adult Inpatient wards (AMH) and community teams (CMHT)
Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP)
Crisis and Home Treatment teams
Liaison Psychiatry Teams
Learning Difficulties (LD)
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) within a community
Crisis and Liaison setting
Forensic Services
Plus special interest and elective placements with our other services in the trust.

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What universities do we work with?

We provide placements to students from:

You can undertake psychiatry placements in all areas of our trust, across all 5 years of your degree programmes.

What is a typical medical student placement timetable?

Each student will have a timetable that meets their specific curriculum learning outcomes. Our undergraduate team makes sure the timetable will give them the relevant experience and support.

We look forward to welcoming you to our trust.

For more information about Undergraduate Medical Education please contact [email protected]

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