Specialty Doctor Old Age Psychiatry

Job summary

• This role will be supported by a £12,000 relocation allowance
• 'Holiday of a lifetime scheme': Consultants and SASG doctors can bank/accrue annual leave over a period of up to 5 years, to facilitate an extended period of leave. The scheme enables the opportunity for planning a 'holiday of a lifetime' or extended paid break

We are looking to recruit a full time Specialty Doctor to join the Older Peoples Mental Health Inpatient Services at The Julian Hospital in Norwich. The vacancy has arisen within Rose Ward, an old age functional ward.

Main duties of the job

The Julian Hospital is a mental health hospital with 70 beds for older people situated on Bowthorpe Road in Norwich. The site has a purpose built dementia unit, Hammerton Court, which provides the inpatient services for dementia patients. Hammerton court was designed with extensive input from Service Users and Clinicians to provide high quality care for patients with dementia.

This consists of Beach Ward, a 13 bedded dementia assessment ward for male patients and Reed Ward, a 13 bedded dementia assessment ward for female patients as well as Rose Ward, a mixed sex continuing care ward with 13 beds.

For 'functional' illness there are 2 wards, Sandringham Ward, is a mixed sex older peoples functional ward currently with 17 beds and Blickling Ward which is mixed sex older peoples functional ward which is to be expanded with refurbishment to 19 bed admission ward. Blickling Ward was recommissioned by the Trust in order to increase the functional bed capacity for older adults and those with significant frailty.

About us

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are also offering:

• Up to £12k relocation expenses
• Dedicated SPA time of up to 25% of working hours
• £600 annual paid study leave (on application and approval) in addition to CPD
• NHS benefits package including contributory pension, redundancy. Including paid annual leave, sick leave and maternity leave.
• Appraisals and revalidation completed by the Trust
• Friendly Colleagues
• Encouragement and support for areas of special interest
• Subsidised gyms and free physio service
• We have a strong education reputation and close ties with both The University of Cambridge and The University of East Anglia
• Well established county wide teaching program
• Access and encouragement to partake in research and a well-established research network within the Trust
• Support for Quality Improvement, Audit and Service development
• Forward thinking, clinically lead and innovative trust
• Flexibility can be considered for a degree of remote working

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Rose Ward, Julian Hospital

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR3 3TD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Rose Ward, Julian Hospital

Bowthorpe Road

Norwich

NR3 3TD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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