Falmer Ward at Mill View Hospital in Hove is a 20-bed acute adult mental health ward, and this consultant post has opened through an internal move. The consultant assesses and treats voluntary and detained working-age patients, leads complex cases and gives senior medical leadership to the ward. The role carries 10 programmed activities and sits alongside a 0.9 WTE SAS doctor, with a Crisis Resolution team in the same building. Approved clinician status is needed, or achievable within three months of appointment.
What the job involves
- Assess and treat voluntary and detained patients with a range of acute mental health conditions
- Provide senior medical leadership to the ward and lead the management of complex cases
- Give clinical advice, liaison and specialist consultation to primary care, community services, acute specialties and health and social care staff
- Work within the multidisciplinary team with nursing, allied health professionals, families and carers
- Carry out psychiatric and, where appropriate, physical investigations of patients in hospital
- Complete Mental Health Act assessments during working hours
- Prepare medical documentation, including Mental Health Review Tribunal reports
- Contribute to local service development within the multidisciplinary team
- Take part in the Trust-wide consultant network, including weekly peer academic programme and governance meetings
- Work within guidelines, policies and procedures relevant to the post
What’s required
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Approved clinician status, or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at appointment
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register, or within six months
- In good standing with the GMC with respect to warnings and conditions on practice
Experience
- Participation in continuous professional development
- Participation in research or service evaluation
- Participation in clinical audit and quality improvement programmesParticipation in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent knowledge of the specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Ability to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Ability to work in and lead a team, with shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement
- Ability to work participatively, with shared decision making with the people who use the service
Checks & eligibility
- Holds and will use a valid UK driving licence, or provides evidence of a proposed alternative
Nice to have
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to the post within the NHS or a comparable service
- Ability to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching relevant to the post
- Reflection on the purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experience in clinical research and/or service evaluation
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement, such as awards, prizes, presentations or publications
- Has led clinical audits that brought service change or better patient outcomes
What’s offered
- Recruitment and retention payment of £45,000, paid in instalments at appointment and at 12, 24 and 36 months' service, pro rata for part time
- Relocation allowance of up to £8,000
- Flexible working considered on request
- Reflective practice groups and weekly bite-size training sessions facilitated by a psychologist
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
