Consultant psychiatrist post in the SET CAMHS Basildon and Brentwood team at NELFT, within community CAMHS services. The work centres on assessing patients, building care plans for complex needs and leading service delivery. It is a substantive 10 programmed activities role, open to job share, part-time and remote sessions, with senior on-call duty. Full GMC registration and Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it, are required.
What the job involves
- Take responsibility for service delivery to patients and for own unsupervised clinical practice
- Assess patients and develop care plans for complex needs, including chronic, acute and palliative care, evaluating outcomes
- Organise and prioritise own and others' workload
- Deputise for the team manager and delegate appropriately to other medical staff
- Manage risk at team level, reporting incidents and adding residual risks to the Trust risk register
- Initiate referrals to specialist health services and agencies
- Give patients and relatives information to support meaningful choices
- Keep accurate records for Trust audit purposes
- Follow Trust protocols and procedures
- Ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice and peer review
- Take part in the senior psychiatrist out-of-hours on-call rota, currently 1:7
- Support teams and the directorate to follow the Trust values in day-to-day work
What’s required
Qualifications
- Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in, the Specialist Register for Psychiatry, or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration with licence to practise
- Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
Experience
- Mastery in managing a broad range of mental disorders in adults
- Experience of managing patients from different cultural backgrounds
- Experience of working with interpreters and translators
Nice to have
- Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry
- Postgraduate qualification
- Awareness of NHS strategic and clinical governance priorities
- Understanding of change management
What’s offered
- Flexible working, including job share, part-time and remote sessions considered
- Category B on-call supplement of 2% of basic salary
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
