Specialty Doctor - Early Intervention Psychosis Service (EIS) - Luton

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for comprehensive details of the main responsibilities.

Qualifications

Essential

• Medical graduation
• Fully registered with the General Medical Council

Desirable

• Higher degree
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983, or plan to gain approval within 6 months of appointment.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• At least two years experience of psychiatry clinical practice post medical qualification
• Appreciation and social and cultural factors of relevant to psychiatric practice
• Experience of and commitment to clinical care of individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions
• Good working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act

Desirable

• Experience of clinical work in Acute Adult Psychiatry
• Experience of working in Early Intervention In Psychosis Services
• Experience of Quality Improvement projects & Clinical Audit

Organisational Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development

Clinical Skills

Essential

• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Self-motivating and innovative
• Clear, effective communication style
• Working with people with serious and enduring mental illness
• Physical health management of service users
• Expertise in risk assessment
• A balanced approach to risk management, based on warm therapeutic interactions with service users
• Confident in therapeutic risk taking
• Commitment to clinical governance and QI
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability and commitment to work with carers and families
• Ability to adjust therapeutic approaches according to service users' cultural needs

Teaching and Supervision

Essential

• Good teaching and communication skills
• Experience of teaching

Research and Audit

Essential

• Audit experience

Desirable

• Experience of research work, or service evaluation, especially in psychosis and cultural psychiatry

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).