Ayman Younis

Higher Specialty Trainee in General Adult Psychiatry with experience across inpatient, community, crisis, older adult and child and adolescent mental health services. Strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, including formal clinical teaching, OSCE examining and MRCPsych CASC preparation. Academic experience includes national prescribing audits, completed audit cycles, service evaluation and conference poster presentation. Currently developing research experience through the LPT Research Envoy Scheme. Particular interests include clinical leadership, medical education, quality improvement and evidence-based psychiatric practice.

• GP Correspondence Quality Audit — Community Mental Health Team
• Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | 2026–ongoing
• Leading an audit of initial psychiatric assessment letters to GPs, focusing on clinical formulation, rationale for medication changes and clarity of management plans to improve communication between primary and secondary care. First cycle nearing completion.
• POMH-UK Topic 11D — National Audit of Antipsychotic Prescribing in Dementia
• Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | 2026
• Participated in the national audit examining antipsychotic prescribing in people with dementia.
• GP Correspondence Audit — Barnsley
• Completed March 2022
• Completed the full audit cycle assessing the quality of GP letters following outpatient and domiciliary assessments.
• POMH-UK Topic 19b — Prescribing for Depression in Adult Mental Health Services
• September 2021–April 2022
• Participated in data collection for the national Prescribing Observatory for Mental Health quality-improvement programme.
• Medical Handover Audits — RDaSH and Kendray Hospital
• June and December 2023
• Completed second-cycle audits examining the quality and frequency of out-of-hours and weekend medical handover across 11 inpatient wards and at Kendray Hospital.

• Service Evaluation of Referrals to Sheffield Community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) by Ethnicity and Areas of Deprivation
• Co-authored a service-evaluation poster examining CAMHS referral patterns by ethnicity and area-level deprivation, presented at the Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress, 10–13 July 2023.
• LPT Research Envoy Scheme 2026
• Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust | September 2026–February 2027
• Exploring opportunities to engage in clinical research within the NHS Trust; completed Good Clinical Practice training.

• Undergraduate Teaching Liaison Associate (UTLA), selected by the Trust teaching lead to support formal clinical and OSCE teaching for medical students.
• Deliver weekly undergraduate teaching during the psychiatry rotation at Bradgate Mental Health Unit.
• Trained medical student OSCE examiner since July 2024, examining end-of-year and end-of-block psychiatry OSCEs.
• Facilitate postgraduate psychiatry OSCE simulation and MRCPsych CASC preparation, developing clinical scenarios and providing structured, competency-focused feedback to trainees.