Support for trainees
To contact the Psychiatrists' Support Service please telephone:
020 7245 0412 or e-mail: pss@rcpsych.ac.uk
Trainees may receive support from
their clinical and educational supervisors, College tutors,
Training programme directors, Directors of medical education and
Heads of School. In addition, the local deaneries often have their
own support structures in place which trainees can access. This
varies from deanery to deanery. Listed below are some of the
services available from each deanery. If you are aware of further
resources, please e-mail us at pss@rcpsych.ac.uk and we can ensure
that these are added on to the site to benefit other trainees.
East Midlands Workforce Deanery
There is a Deanery
training support unit which offers confidential support to
trainees in difficulty. There is access to external sources of
support in the form of: coaching, counselling, language support,
dyslexia, neuro-linguistic programming, occupational health, career
management, communication workshops and educational psychology. The
self referral telephone number is: 0115 8468179
Careers support:
There is career
guidance and support with career planning available. There
are workshops which are run to help doctors make decisions about
their careers. There is an online medical school career handbook
aimed at junior doctors and medical students.
East of England Deanery
Trainees in difficulty
can contact Dr Margaret Murphy and those looking for careers
support can contact the relevant person from the careers
support list.
London Deanery
Mednet is a self-referral service for those living or working
within area covered by London Deanery and KSS Deanery. MedNet
provides doctors and dentists with confidential consultations,
advice about their careers, emotional support, and when needed,
access to other expert help. This may include more
specialised psychotherapeutic interventions (which embrace all the
mainstream modalities of psychotherapy), or specialised psychiatric
advice. It is staffed by Consultant Psychiatrists in
Psychotherapy
Tel: 020 8938 2411
E-mail: mednet@tavi-port.nhs.uk
The Practitioner Health
Programme is a service for those living within London who
experience mental or physical health concerns or addiction problems
that impact on work.
Tel: 0203 049 4505
Email: php.help@nhs.net
Website: Practitioner Health
Programme
There is also a coaching and
mentoring service in London deanery.
Careers support:
London trainees can contact the Head of
School, Dr Michael Maier, for careers advice.
KSS trainees can contact
Joan Reid for careers advice.
There is also a careers
unit available in the Deanery whichl offers one-to-one and
group career support sessions.
Tel: 020 7866 3230
E-mail: careersunit@londondeanery.ac.uk
Mersey Deanery
There is a Mersey Deanery
Career Management and Advice Service aims to support doctors in
training to manage their careers effectively. Advice can be
provided by Educational Supervisors, Supervising Consultants,
College/ Specialty Tutors, Directors of Medical Education and
Postgraduate Centre Managers. There is also a Careers Guidance
Practitioner. There are also career planning
workshops, careers information and advice, one-to-one
condfidential careers guidance and careers events.
Contact:
Dr. Alistair Thomson
Associate Post Graduate Dean
Alistair.thomson@merseydeanery.nhs.uk
Mrs Christine Waddelove
Senior Careers Adviser
christine.waddelove@nhs.net
Tel: 0151 285 4700 / 4701
Northern Deanery
House Concern
is a clinical service for all doctors and dentists in Northern
deanery. They provide short term support and treatment to those who
develop psychological or emotional problems. There are workshops,
educational seminars and lectures and access to individual
psychotherapy.
Tel: 0191 230 0043
Trained mentors are also available in dentistry, primary and
secondary care within the Deanery.
Contact:
Dr. Alistair Thomson
Associate Post Graduate Dean
Alistair.thomson@merseydeanery.nhs.uk
Mrs Christine Waddelove
Senior Careers Adviser
christine.waddelove@nhs.net
Tel: 0151 285 4700 / 4701
Careers support:
There is a doctors
online network which will provide further information for local
trainees.
For more generic careers
advice, trainees can contact Mike Wilson, NDFS Careers Lead , Tel:
(0191) 222 8898, Email: m.wilson1@newcastle.ac.uk
North Western Deanery
There is an online resource for careers
support.
Oxford Deanery
Medic Support is a service funded by Oxford Deanery where
trainees can self-refer if they are struggling with work related or
personal difficulties.
Contact:
June Dent, Consultant Clinical Psychologist - email:
june.dent@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
.
Tel: Secretary 01865
738500
Philip Roys, Consultant Adult Psychotherapist - email: philip.roys@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Tel: Secretary
01865 556648
There is also a career development unit
which offers one-to-one support for doctors and
dentists who need help with their professional development due
to, for example, difficulties at work or training progress being
significantly slower than expected.
E-mail: cdu@oxford-pgmde.co.uk
Severn Deanery
There is a
Deanery trainee support team which trainees can self-refer
to.
Yorkshire and the Humber Deanery
There is Information online for trainee
support.
There is a counselling service for trainees working in North,
West and East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire
Address: 19 Clarendon PLace, Leeds LS2 9JY
Tel: 0113 343 4642
Email: taketime@leeds.ac.uk
There is a counselling service for trainees working in South
Yorkshire
Address: Workplace Wellbeing, 30 Wilkinson Street, Sheffield
S10 2GB
Tel: 0114 226 1810
Email: workplace.wellbeing@shsc.nhs.uk
Careers support:
There is some online
information on careers support.
South West Peninsula Deanery
A short term counselling
service is available to doctors training in the deanery and is
provided by
Hammet Street Consultants Ltd.
Tel: 01823 271428
Mobile Service: 07918 170528
Email: refer@hammetstreetconsultants.org
A
mentoring scheme and career planning scheme are also
available.
Wales Deanery
There is a
Professional Support Unit which supports all doctors in
training whose performance and career progress has been affected in
some way.
Tel: 029 2068 7417
Careers support
Educational Supervisors
are the first point of contact for assistance, guidance and
feedback on the educational and career development process.
Specialty Training School, College Tutors and Programme Directors
provide the next level of support. The Postgraduate Organiser (PGO)
can be approached if there is a career issue that cannot be
resolved at these initial stages.
The Deanery Careers Team
can help if trainees have serious doubts about your career choice
or progress and it is possible to self refer.
Contact: pgmedicalcareers@cardiff.ac.uk
West Midlands Workforce Deanery
West Midlands Deanery offers a
Confidential Counselling service provided by Clinical Psychology Associates
(CPA) for doctors in training.
Careers support:
For specialty specific information in
psychiatry contact: Dr Susan Lister
There is also a careers team at the
Deanery:
Helen Bodenham-Chilton, Lead administrator,
E-mail: medical.careers@westmidlands.nhs.uk
Dr Helen Goodyear Associate Dean for Careers,
Tel: 0121 695 2399
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