This Consultant Psychiatrist post sits in the Spelthorne Neighbourhood Mental Health Team at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Duties centre on daily cover for emergency and routine care, deciding on new referrals, and forming diagnoses and treatment plans with the team. Full time at 10 programmed activities, it sits alongside psychologists, community psychiatric nurses and trainee doctors. Section 12 approval under the Mental Health Act is required, or must be achieved within 6 to 12 months of interview.
What the job involves
- Provide effective cover to the Spelthorne NMHT during working hours for emergency and routine work
- Decide on new referrals, which arrive daily
- Assess new referrals and formulate diagnoses and treatment plans in consultation with the team
- Provide input to other multidisciplinary team members
- Take part in care planning
What’s required
Qualifications
- MBBS or equivalent recognised medical qualification
Registration & licences
- Full medical registration with licence to practise
- Section 12 approval under the Mental Health Act, or within 6 to 12 months of interview or assessment, or equivalent
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register, or within six months
Experience
- Experience across the full range of clinical severity in community, inpatient and specialist teams
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to take a clinical leadership role in a multidisciplinary team
- Skill in negotiating with patients, relatives and professionals where opinions differ
- Ability to communicate complex, clinically sensitive information orally and in writing to a wide range of audiences
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Knowledge of psychiatric provision
- Knowledge of legislation, Department of Health guidance and literature and its clinical implications
Other
- Ability to meet duties under the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge of the NHS strategic vision in High-Quality Care for All
Nice to have
- Relevant higher degree, such as MD, PhD or MSc, or other additional clinical qualifications
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Management qualification or evidence of an interest in developing leadership skills
- Approved clinician status, or able to achieve within three months of appointment
- Ability to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
- Specific training qualification or attendance on a recognised teaching course
- Peer review or research publications
- Published audit or research projects
What’s offered
- Relocation allowance up to £8,000 and international candidate sponsorship up to £3,199, subject to policy
- GMC sponsorship, subject to policy
- Recruitment premia of £25,000, subject to policy
- NHS Pension with employer contribution of 23.7% from day one
- Subsidised nursery places
- Car scheme with tax saving of up to £6,000
- Discounted Nuffield Gym membership
- Generous annual leave
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
