Apply to teach with BPNA!

The BPNA is dedicated to ensuring that children with neurological conditions are receiving the best possible care. Your knowledge and experience are crucial to providing high quality education to healthcare professionals seeing children with neurological conditions so they can accurately diagnose and treat these children. 

The BPNA deliver a variety of short courses. Click here to see our range of courses. Applications are considered by the BPNA Education Quality & Standards Committee, which meets twice a year.

Requirements and expectations:

  • All teachers are peri-CCT or able to demonstrate equivalent experience/seniority before applying to teach. Applications are also welcome from specialist nurses and associated health professionals with appropriate competences and educational skillsets.
  • Attend the BPNA annual 1-day Instructor Training Day (even if you have undertaken the General Instructor Course (GIC) and observe the relevant course before teaching. This training is specific to teaching at BPNA courses as the materials are standardised. 
  • You should provide some evidence of your "credibility", including an outline of clinical experience that is relevant to the subject areas you wish to teach at. 
  • All faculty members agree not to use, copy or distribute BPNA course materials or videos. 
  • All faculty must teach on a minimum of 1 course every 2 years to keep teaching credentials up to date. 

The application to teach form can be downloaded here. Please read through the document carefully, ensuring the recommendation section has been completed by either your regional co-ordinator or active BPNA faculty member for the course you wish to teach. 

Following completion, please send your completed form to francesca.cassidy@bpna.org.uk Your form will then be reviewed by the BPNA Education, Quality & Standards Committee (EQS) at their next biannual meeting. We will then be in touch to confirm your application and arrange for you to attend the next ITD course and observe a convenient course. 

Benefits: 

  • Enhance your skills and knowledge 
  • Gain CPD points 
  • Connect with other professionals to improve patient care 
  • Choice of either online or in-person teaching

 

Paediatric Epilepsy Training (PET) Faculty
We currently have vacancies for faculty members in the following courses/regions:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
Thames South Dr Despoina Mandelenaki
PET1:
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Thames North Dr Suresh Pujar
PET1:
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
Scotland Dr Andreas Brunklaus
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Northern Dr Ramesh Kumar
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Eastern

Dr Bina Mukhtyar &

Dr Sreeni Tekki Rao

 
Midlands Dr Shakti Agrawal
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Trent Dr Colin Dunkley
PET1:
Consultant Paediatrician with a special interest in epilepsy
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Yorkshire Dr Rajeeva Singh
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
North West/Merseyside
VACANT
PET1:
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
South West Dr Jayesh Patel
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Wales Dr Michelle Barber
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Oxford Dr Rohini Rattihalli
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Wessex Dr Jaspal Singh
PET1:
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurophysiologist
Northern Ireland  Dr Deirdre Peake
PET1:
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Republic of Ireland Dr Niamh McSweeney
PET1:
Children's Epilepsy Nurse Specialist
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in epilepsy
PET2 and PET3:
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists

 

Children's Headache Training (CHaT)
We currently have vacancies for the following faculty members:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
Scotland, North East, Northern Ireland Dr Ishaq Abu Arafeh
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatricans
Post CCT fellow in paediatric neurology
General Practitoners with special interest
Mersey, North West, Yorkshire, Trent Dr Ravi Singh
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatricans
Post CCT fellow in paediatric neurology
General Practitoners with special interest 
South West, Wales, Oxford, Wessex, Republic of Ireland Dr Rachel Howells Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatricans
Post CCT fellow in paediatric neurology
General Practitoners with special interest
London, Eastern, West Midlands Dr Prab Prabhakar Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatricans
Post CCT fellow in paediatric neurology
General Practitoners with special interest

 

Neonatal Neurology (NeoNATE)
We currently have vacancies for the following faculty members:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
North Dr Tony Hart Consultant Neonatologists
South Dr Brigitte Vollmer Consultant Neonatologists

 

Approaching Children's Tone (ACT)

We currently have vacancies for the following faculty members:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
UK & Eire Dr Paul Eunson
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Consultant Paediatricians with a special interest in neurodevelopmental and neuromuscular disorders

 

Acute Paediatric Neurology (Acute) 

We currently have vacancies for the following faculty members:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
UK & Eire Dr Louise Hartley
Consultants and senior (ST4+) trainees in Paediatric Neurology
Acute General Paediatricians
Emergency Department Paediatricians                                                                                           

 

Movement Disorders (MovED)

We currently have vacancies for the following faculty members:

Region Regional Co-ordinator Recruiting for:
UK & Eire Dr Lucinda Carr
Consultant Paediatric Neurologists
Community Paediatricians with a special interest in movement disorders
Acute Paediatricians with a special interest in movement disorders