Clinician (Consultant Psychiatrist) - Practitioner Health

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Job Summary

The key job functions are threefold as described in the Health for Health Professionals HHP Competency Framework.

Clinical will include the roles of assessment, treatment, care planning, referral and signposting, specialist prescribing and monitoring and may include:

First contact care and assessment for patients referred for care

Participation in unplanned care rota to manage urgent requests during office hours

Continuing care and referral to a range of clinical interventions as appropriate, such as CBT and group therapy

Referral for specialist assessment or treatment

Assessment of particular physical health needs

Specific substance misuse treatment and therapeutic monitoring

Case management

Management of specific mental health disorders

Writing relevant reports and liaison with regulators

Education and Liaison may include:

Providing advice and liaison to other practitioners through non-facetoface or facetoface contact, in the management of those problems/conditions

Providing support and training to other health and related practitioners in areas related to a. prevention b. identification and c). brief intervention of mental health/addiction problems in health professionals d. self-care and wellbeing

Participating in education and training activities

Liaising with other practitioners involved in the care of practitioner patients

Patient advocacy

Appraisal tailored to the needs of a non-working clinician

Leadership/Service Development - roles will include ensuring dissemination of knowledge, promoting PH services and advising on practitioner health issues and may include:

Involvement with research into issues relating to practitioner-patients and the effectiveness of clinical interventions

Developing links with other professional groups and support services for the effective shared care of practitioner patients

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the GMC; hold a license to practice (ideally in current clinical practice
• MRCPsych or equivalent

Desirable

• Additional clinical training/qualifications in managing Substance Misuse.
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Evidence of postgraduate study in sub-stance misuse or other specialist psychiatric experience in a related field e.g. eating disorders

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 5 years post qualification experience in specialty
• Wide range of experience of specialist and sub-specialist experience in mental health and/or addiction
• Empathy and an understanding of distressed health and care professionals many of whom will have been reluctant to contact the service

Desirable

• Experience of producing reports, assessments and presentations involving highly complex information.
• Experience of providing, receiving and processing sensitive or contentious information and communicating this effectively.
• Experience of building and developing effective working relationships and networking with senior professionals
• Experience of working with sick health professionals

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.

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

Hurley Group

Address

18 Wandsworth Road

London

SW8 2JB

Employer's website

http://hurleygroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)