This Consultant Psychiatrist post in Learning Disability Psychiatry sits within the Community Learning Disability Teams for Purbeck and Ferndown, as part of a wider service reconfiguration. The work centres on psychiatric assessment, diagnosis and treatment for adults with learning disabilities, delivered through clinics and home visits. It is a part-time role working alongside the Intensive Support Team, with a county-wide senior on-call rota; epilepsy management sits elsewhere. Applicants need MRCPsych or equivalent, plus Section 12(2) and Approved Clinician approval or the ability to obtain it before starting.
What the job involves
- Provide psychiatric leadership, assessment, diagnosis and treatment for adults with learning disabilities
- Provide psychiatric input to patients supported by the Intensive Support Team
- Deliver clinical work through a combination of clinics and home visits
- Provide medical cross-cover for Consultant colleagues during annual, study and emergency sick leave
- Participate in the county-wide senior on-call rota
- Contribute to weekly Intensive Support Team review meetings
- Contribute to the wider development of community-based learning disability services
- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver person-centred care
Qualifications
- MBBS or equivalent general medical qualification
- MRCPsych or recognised equivalent, such as membership of a psychiatry college abroad
Registration & licences
- Licence to practise
- CCT in Psychiatry or on the Specialist Register, or within 6 months of obtaining it
Experience
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement
- Experience of carrying out an audit project
- Experience or involvement in a research project with publication
- Examples of leadership in own practice, valuing the skills of allied professions
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent specialty knowledge with a bio-psycho-social clinical approach
- Competence in prescribing and deprescribing short and long-term psychiatric medication
- Ability to assess mixed or unclear presentations where psychiatric and non-psychiatric issues show as behaviour change
- Ability to meet duties under the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Excellent written and oral communication
- Understanding of clinical governance and current mental health policy and legislation
Checks & eligibility
- Section 12(2) and Approved Clinician approval, or ability to obtain before starting
Other
- Ability to manage priorities and work with managers in the interests of patient care
Nice to have
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Additional clinical qualification
- Experience of medicine outside psychiatry, such as general practice
- CCT in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
- Teaching experience
- Approved educational supervisor training
- Published audit project
- Previous management experience, including of junior medical staff
What’s offered
- £10,000 recruitment and retention payment, paid monthly during the first year
- Relocation package of up to £10,000 if relocating to Dorset
- Flexible working
- Excellent NHS benefits
- 10 days' study leave
- Annual study budget of up to £1,000
- 3% on-call availability supplement plus 0.75 APA per week
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
