Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital), Acton Lane, London NW10 7NS (Tel: 020 8965 5733)
Parts I & II posts: acute adult, old age and intensive care psychiatry
This is a purpose built unit offering in-patient and day-patient care for adult and elderly mentally ill, out-patient facilities for children with psychiatric disorders and close liaison with two local day hospitals at Willesden and Wembley. There is also a day hospital for the elderly at Belvedere House.
 As a busy District General Hospital there is also call for liaison work and urgent assessments referred from casualty.
 Dr H Schuff, Consultant Psychotherapist, based at the Willesden Centre for Psychological treatments offers supervision in medium and longterm psychodynamic work and family therapy. Supervision and training is also available from psychologists on the Park Royal site for brief focus cognitive behavioural work.
 There is an extensive library with excellent postgraduate facilities in the Postgraduate Centre including computerised databases.

 8. SOUTH BRENT CHILD & FAMILY CLINIC, Warranty House, Dudden Hill Lane, London NW10 1DL (Tel: 020 8208 7200/7201)
Part II post: Child psychiatry
KENSINGTON & CHELSEA PRIMARY CARE TRUST
 9. KINGSBURY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, Honeypot Lane, London NW10 (Tel: 020 8903 1323)
Part II post: Learning Disability (8 sessions), Child Psychiatry at Warranty House, NW10(2 sessions)
 Admission and Treatment Services with community experience in Brent.

Other Sites

WEST LONDON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
 10. ST BERNARD’S/JOHN CONOLLY WING/THREE BRIDGES REGIONAL SECURE UNIT, (shared site with Ealing Hospital Trust), Uxbridge Road, Southall, Middlesex (Tel: 020 8 574 2444)
Part I post: acute adult psychiatry
Part II posts: acute adult psychiatry, forensic psychiatry (Regional Secure Unit)
child & adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy
Ealing Hospital provides training to both the St Mary’s and Charing Cross Trainees, and therefore there is a large body of trainees here, and a tradition of well organised in-house teaching programmes. The 50-bed Regional Secure Unit offers posts for the main forensic training on the St Mary’s Scheme. One of these has a clinical research emphasis. The Bentham Remand Unit specialises in the assessment and treatment of patients from Wormwood Scrubs Prison.

NORTH WEST LONDON NHS TRUST
11.NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL Watford Road, Harrow, Middlesex. (Tel: 020 8864 3232)
Part II post: child psychiatry
This post includes both sessions with Dr Leverton at Northwick Park doing paediatric liaison work, deliberate self-harm assessments and gaining experience in the diagnosis and management of children with pervasive development disorders, and sessions in the community child and family clinic in

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ST MARY’S GENERAL ADULT AND OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY TRAINING SCHEME

Employment contracts

 

Contracts of employment will be issued to trainees every 6 months by the NHS Trust they are attached to.

 

Banding Payments and London Weighting

 

With the introduction of the European Working Time Directive, huge changes have taken place in junior doctors’ working patterns throughout the NHS.  Shift patterns and banding supplement payments (where applicable) vary from site to site as do London Weighting amounts.  Details of banding should always be sought from the HR department of the employing Trust.

 

If you are unhappy

 

If trainees have complaints or experience difficulties they are invited to discuss these with their educational supervisor and/or local Tutor initially.  If unresolved, they are invited to contact the programme director via the Scheme’s office.

 

The London Deanery also offers a free, confidential service ‘MedNet’ (020 7447 3790), a confidential counselling service for doctors by doctors.  MedNet provides doctors with practical advice about their career, emotional support should they need it, and if appropriate access to brief or longer term psychotherapy.  It operates on the basis of strict confidentiality. Its aim is to help doctors with psychological problems which are work-related.