Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Detailed clerking, history taking and initiation of all necessary investigations and assessments for patients.

2. Establishing, initiating and evaluating treatment plans and risk assessments in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and under the supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist.

3. Interviewing relatives and informal carers of patients as required.

4. Undertaking the relevant referrals to other disciplines and services both within the multi-disciplinary team as well as to services and resources external to the service

5. Observation of Trust, BMHS and local policies and procedures; including those related to medicines management and physical healthcare.

6. Preparation and presentation of medico-legal reports, including those for Managers hearings and Medial Health Review Tribunals for in-patients.

7. The post holder will complete full risk assessments of all in-patients in conjunction with the MDT.

8. The post-holder will liaise with all external agencies as required.

9. The post holder is expected to be part of the 2nd on-call rota (1 in 10) with attendance to the wards at weekends.

10. The post-holder is expected to carry out assessments at Prisons and HIRC

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications Training

Essential

• Primary Medical Degree
• Full GMC Registration with GMC Licence to Practise

Desirable

• MRCPsych (or equivalent)
• Section 12 MHA Approved
• An additional post graduate qualification of relevance to (own specialty)

Experience

Essential

• Experience in the field of general adult psychiatry
• Four years of full-time postgraduate training, at least two of which will be in a specialty training programme in a relevant specialty

Desirable

• Experience of service development/business planning
• High level knowledge of planned developments at a national level to improve efficiency and deliver quality services

Skills Knowledge & Qualities

Desirable

• Excellent communication and empathic skills
• Timely and effective verbal and written communication skills with patients, carers, colleagues and multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrable leadership skills
• Experience of team working
• Sound organisational skills
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hillingdon East and West Community Mental Health Team

Mill House

38 Riverside Way, Uxbridge

UB8 2YF

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)