COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST (MAIDSTONE)

Job overview

COMMUNITY ADULT EATING DISORDERS

CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST

(MAIDSTONE, ME14 1PA)

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

Job Details:

Qualifications needed:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• CCT or equivalent
• Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
• Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
• Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

Main duties of the job

To be successful in your application, you will need:

• To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,
• To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Adult Eating Disorders
• Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
• To be a team player

NELFT Benefits:

• Relocation expenses
• Career Development and training
• Just & Compassionate Culture
• Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
• Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
• Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health & Wellness initiatives
• 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few
• Retail Discounts
• Flexible working and agile working
• Cycle to work scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be expected to:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to patients with eating disorders across all ages, although more focus on the adult patients
• Provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases
• Provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with adults (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external adult mental health providers, and acute hospitals
• Work alongside another Adult Consultant Psychiatrists, 2,8wte CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrists, 0.4wte Paediatrician, and 1wte Core Trainee within the service, and will share supervision requirements for junior doctors in the service
• Further develop links already established with the local acute trusts’ A&E departments and inpatient wards, in order to continually improve our services
• Be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan, and deliver care
• Support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative and supervise junior colleagues
• Commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies