Specialty Doctor - Bromley MHLT

Job overview

Oxleas and the SAS Doctor Charter

Our focus is on ensuring that the huge contribution of SAS Doctors is valued and their personal development prioritised. Here are a few of the ways Oxleas recognises this:

• After joining Oxleas you will be welcomed by our SAS Tutor, with a personal meeting to discuss your development needs and how Oxleas can help.
• You will have access to wide range of training and development days in Oxleas, and across the other South London NHS Trusts, which are specifically for SAS Doctors.
• Anyone considering a CESR application will receive support from Oxleas and we are proud to have had successful applicants with several SAS Doctors who are currently in the process of applying.
• Recently introduced in Oxleas is that all substantive SAS doctors with seven or more years' in the grade will be eligible for two additional days of annual leave per annum.

The SAS Charter sets out what support Staff and Associate Specialist (SAS) doctors have available and what they can expect from their employers.

Main duties of the job

The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor to support the Consultants within the mental health liaison team based at Green Parks House with a satellite office in A&E at Princess Royal University Hospital, 09.00 – 17.00 Monday to Friday on a 1 year fixed term basis.

The team aims to work collaboratively with service users, carers and family networks, in actively pursuing their goals and aspirations, whilst minimising the impact of their long-term mental health difficulties and fostering a culture of hope and empowerment.

Within the context of a rehabilitation, enablement and recovery, the service aims to work with service users to:

• Develop daily living skills and coping strategies and work towards greater independence;
• Develop a hopeful view of their future and realistic goals for their occupational, self-care, leisure, environmental and psychological needs;
• Increase stability in their life and their carers’ lives;
• Improve engagement with the mental health services:
• Improve social networks and social inclusion;
• Have fewer hospital admissions or spend less time in hospital if admission is essential:
• Promote independence through facilitating service users in moving on to less supported accommodation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide medical and psychiatric input for patients referred to the MHLT.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team including nursing staff and other professionals.
• The postholder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team including nursing staff and other professionals and provide medical input to the service including support to other members of the clinical team and providing support to therapeutic interventions where appropriate.
• Associated administrative tasks including attending regular meetings with nursing and secretarial staff, dealing with requests for prescriptions, reviewing blood results, ECG’s, neuroimaging and other medical reports, clinical entries on RiO (the Trust electronic medical record) and associated letters and administrative tasks associate with RiO such as making and validating clinical entries, assisting in the completion of Risk assessments.
• Attend and actively participate in relevant team referral, case load zoning and review meetings
• Participate in new referral assessments, clinical reviews with other members of the MDT in either of the wards.
• To work in a flexible manner as dictated by clinical need within the terms of the job plan and contract