Core Training at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

The training scheme is based and run under the Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.

It has 43 psychiatric training posts, which includes 23 core training posts and 20 higher training posts in General Adult, Old Age Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychiatry in Learning Disabilities.

There are also 12 General Practice training posts, 7 Foundation Years 2 posts and 7 Foundation year 1 posts.

The Core Training posts are six month posts in General Adult Psychiatry, including both inpatients and community placements, Liaison Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Learning Disabilities. 

The placements in General Practice training and Foundation Year posts are four months posts and include all the Psychiatry specialties available to Psychiatric trainees in the scheme. 

Details on the location of Core Training posts can be found in the attached document below.

The Tutors Committee is responsible for educational governance of the psychiatric training programme ad its role is to oversee the training scheme & allocates trainees to training posts (except to LD & CAMHS).

The scheme has developed its own MRCPsych. Course. This course has been accredited by the University of Hertfordshire to be part of an MSc degree programme in Psychiatric Practice. The Course has been associated with above national pass rates in the MRCPsych. Examinations. The senior trainees run mock clinical examinations for junior trainees sitting the membership examinations twice a year.

The Colonnades offers staff a focused, efficient learning space with state of the art facilities including a modern and fully fitted Clinical Skills lab, a dedicated e-learning suite, a new and improved library resource for staff, seminar and meeting rooms, an atrium area for informal meetings and wireless throughout. All of our staff are encouraged to make use of this fantastic new facility for their training and development needs.

Professor Naomi Fineberg is the Trust’s lead on research and Professor Tim Gale, the R & D manager, and alongside the Practice Audit and Clinical Effectiveness team promote research and audit activities, which trainees are encouraged to get involved and have led to opportunities to undertake doctoral research degrees at the University of Hertfordshire.  

The Trust has its own training and development centre in the Colonnades, Hatfield which houses a postgraduate library, the Medical Personnel Service and numerous lecture & resource rooms for training and development. 

Learning & Development Centre, Colonnades, Hatfield 

For further information, please contact Professor Kunle Ashaye - Head of Psychiatric Training, 

HPUFT has a dedicated Staff Wellbeing Team who organise regular activities open to all staff. They arrange workshops, social events, health initiatives and challenges on a regular basis. They also arrange a series of staff engagement events that are held throughout the year.

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