Specialty Doctor - Lucas Ward

Job overview

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic Specialty doctor in General Adult Psychiatry to join our newly-opening acute female 11 bed inpatient ward at the Maudsley Hospital – Lucas ward in the London Borough of Southwark. This is currently being advertised as a 10 PA substantive role, pending Royal College of Psychiatrists approval.

If you are looking for an exciting front line clinical role with opportunities to be involved in service development and incorporating quality improvement methodology to evaluate changes, then this is the ideal post for you.

We welcome applications from Core trainees who may be looking to take a break from training in the near future

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from psychiatrists who want to pursue CESR , whereby the role can be tailored to meet the competencies required in your CESR portfolio.

For further details, please refer to attached advertisement and job description

Main duties of the job

• Management of the day-to-day case load of the ward
• Assessing new patients and management of all patients admitted to the ward.
• Attending daily team hand over and other clinical meetings and twice weekly ward rounds
• Carrying out risk assessments and formulating appropriate risk management plans
• Formulating care plans and carrying out treatment interventions as appropriate
• Safe prescribing and recording of drug information.
• Physical health monitoring of patients –including carrying out physical examination and investigations as appropriate.
• Liaising with GP’s and various other professionals/ teams within and outside SLAM including with social services, DVLA and the Voluntary sector.
• Attending external patient meetings as appropriate

For further details please refer to attached JD.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Making safeguarding referrals
• Record keeping – including preparing reports/letters, discharge notifications/summaries and ensuring that all the relevant information gathered by you following patient contact is recorded clearly in the trust’s electronic notes (epjs) and elsewhere as appropriate.
• Section 12 duties – which include carrying out Mental health act and Mental capacity assessments for our patients and attending MH review tribunals.

Overall you will be expected to support the team consultant and deputise for the consultant in their absence (nominal consultant cover is arranged to allow discussion of clinical issues when the consultant is on leave)

General/ Managerial and other responsibilities:

• Participation in service evaluation, audit, research, and quality improvement
• Participation in service development/clinical governance activities
• Participation in the team’s business meeting and any other relevant team/trust meetings
• Participation in academic activities including team-based teaching, case presentation, and teaching medical/other students attached to the service.
• Participation in reflective practice sessions

For detailed information, please refer to attached JD.