LAS Core Trainee

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Providing a good standard of practice and care
  • Undertake clinical assessment of patients with mental health problems

You will ensure that all new patients admitted under your teams care are fully assessed, including an assessment of their physical state, so that a preliminary formulation of their problems is made, at the latest within two working days of their admission. All in-patients should be reassessed as necessary and no less frequently than once per week, so that an update is made before each main ward round. You will attend ward rounds and CPA meetings. The post holder will liaise with primary and secondary care services regarding clients physical health issues. They will also work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team on a wide variety of psychosocial aspects of client care.

You will maintain accurate, legible, contemporaneous and useful clinical records for all patients in whose care you are involved.

• Decisions about access to care
  • Use the results of the clinical assessment to ensure effective patient management

Under the supervision of a clinical supervisor, you will prescribe pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for the patients that you are working with. You will refer them promptly to other professionals as discussed with/ directed by your clinical supervisors.

• Treatment in emergencies

Manage emergencies

You may see patients who require urgent psychiatric assessment when you are on-call.

• Maintaining good medical practice

You can participate in a weekly half day academic programme or watch the recording.

You can attend Balint group unless holding site bleep

You will complete mandatory training.

You are encouraged to be involved in audit, quality improvement and research (ILO8, ILO9)

• Maintaining performance
  • Monitor and maintain professional performance

You will participate in keeping a portfolio for appraisal.

You may be expected to undertake one audit or quality improvement project during the six months under the direction of your Supervisor.

• Teaching and training, appraising and assessing
  • Plan, deliver, and evaluate teaching & learning in a variety of environments

You will participate in the teaching of medical students attached to the unit. This will include assisting the bedside teaching of junior and senior medical students by helping identify and consent suitable patients for the students to see, giving shadowing opportunities and by helping the students develop their clinical skills by giving them opportunities to present and discuss the patients they have seen.

• Assess, appraise and evaluate learning and learners

You will evaluate your own learning and progress, using self-assessment forms that you may retain in your learning portfolio.

• Relationships with patients

Conduct professional patient relationships

Whenever possible, you will obtain informed consent from patients for whom you provide treatment. You will observe patient confidentiality at all times. When guided by your clinical supervisors, you should share information appropriately with colleagues.

• Dealing with problems in professional practice
  • Conduct or performance of colleagues

If you become aware of problems with the conduct or performance of a colleague, you must bring this to the attention of a senior colleague.

• Complaints and formal inquiries

You must always cooperate fully with any complaints procedure or formal inquiry

• Providing assistance at inquiries and inquests

You must always cooperate fully with any formal inquiry or inquest into a patients death.

• Indemnity insurance

Early in the placement, you should discuss the existing provisions and limitations of your NHS indemnity insurance with your Supervisor.

Working with colleagues

• Continuously promote value based non prejudicial practice

You must maintain a legal, ethical and fair approach toward working with colleagues and respect equality and diversity in all respects.

• Work effectively as a member and a leader of multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrate appropriate leadership

During this placement you will be a full member of team and will attend its weekly meetings. You will discuss your experience of the MDT in meetings with your trainer.

You will cross cover for the other Core Trainee when they are off the ward for leave (of whatever type), maintaining the patients safety and management as our priority.

• Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals

You will keep clear, accurate and contemporaneous clinical records. You will send regular written reports on patients to general practitioners and other professionals involved in patient care.

• Appropriately assume, delegate and devolve responsibility for clinical management where necessary, involving other MDT members.
• Access advice, assistance and second opinion when delegating and making referrals

Your Named Clinical Supervisor and other clinical supervisors will give you guidance as to the level of responsibility you should assume in individual clinical situations. If you are unsure, you must always obtain advice and assistance

• Maintaining probity
  • Ensure that reports, evidence and documents you have a responsibility for are complete, honest and accurate.

Your written reports will use any standard report format and will be sent promptly.

• Properly manage financial and commercial dealings

You must report receiving any gift(s) from patients with your Supervisor and you must not solicit any fee or payment from a patient or third party unless your Supervisor has sanctioned this. You will not meet with any representatives of the pharmaceutical industry during work time, unless this is at a postgraduate meeting that has been organised within ABPI Guidelines.

• Avoid conflicts of interest and advise others on preventing and dealing with conflicts of interest

Inform your Supervisor of any real or potential conflict of interest you may have.

• Health
  • Ensure that your health and the health of others does not put patients at risk

You must always obtain advice and treatment for mental and physical health problems and must ensure that your health does not put patients at risk. You must comply with the Trusts Occupational Health policy.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent qualification
• Full GMC registration

Experience

Essential

• Interest in in-patient psychiatry

Skills

Essential

• Good clinical skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good written and spoken English
• Emotional and Personal Resilience. Ability to cope with out of hours duties.

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

Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Highgate East Mental Health Centre

Dartmouth Park Hill

London

NW1 0PE

Employer's website

https://www.candi.nhs.uk/careers (Opens in a new tab)