Consultant Psychiatrist - General Adult Inpatient & Community Services

Job overview

We’re looking for 4 Consultants Psychiatrists to join our team of life savers and life changers who share our values to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to be the difference improving lives every day.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our acute inpatient and community mental health teams. Successful applicants will be given the opportunity to preference and negotiate bespoke job plans across the below services:

• Our newly renovated and modern Maple Ward
• Our brand new Dovedale 2 Ward
• Our Community Mental Health Teams
• Our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team

Main duties of the job

Leadership/Management Duties

• Attendance at Monthly Governance meetings and Leadership meetings (which will be aimed to be provided as protected time to enable candidates to provide crucial clinical leadership into operations of the service which will ultimately impact patient care and efficient team functioning).
• To review and undertake QIP / Service improvement work as directed by service needs.
• In addition, Candidates will be supported with any other special interest area of work they may have / would like to hold.

Clinical Duties

The below is subject to requirements of the individual service(s) the successful applicant will be working within.

• Provide senior medical leadership within your clinical team(s).
• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Medical/psychiatric assessments for care planning and risk assessment
• Formulation and delivery of appropriate pharmacological and psychological interventions to aid recovery.
• Medical/psychiatric assessments for care planning and risk assessment.
• Formulation and delivery of appropriate pharmacological and psychological interventions to aid recovery.
• Assessment for people detained under the Mental Health Act.
• Attendance at Tribunal hearings for people detained under Mental Health Act.
• Completion of administrative tasks necessary for clinical responsibilities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Personal Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click ‘Apply Now’ to view in Trac.

A total of 37 sessions is available across the below services to be mutually agreed with successful applicants through a preferencing process:

• Maple Ward (10 sessions)
• Dovedale 2 Ward (7 sessions)
• CMHT (10 sessions)
• Home Treatment Team (10 sessions)

Successful applicants will have office accommodation, with IT support for e-mail, internet access and secretarial support.  The post holder will be issued with all required IT equipment including a laptop and mobile phone as well as any reasonable adjustments that may be required.