Specialty Doctor - Birmingham

Job description

Job responsibilities

As the UKs leading charitable provider of specialist mental healthcare, St Andrews is unlike traditional independent providers, with no shareholders, we can reinvest any surplus into growing our specialist services, building state-of-the-art facilities, developing our staff and providing truly individual care.St Andrews is transforming lives through a unique approach to mental health - distinct patient pathways for males and females.

St Andrews Birmingham provides medium and low secure services for men and women with mental illness.

St Andrews Birmingham is a 125 bedded adult mental healthcare facility, located in Stirchley and comprises of eight units, which cover medium and low security. At present, seven of the wards provide services for Men and one is for women.

This is an opportunity for non-consultant grade Doctor to help shape our essential services.You will join an experienced and supportive team, you will demonstrate strong clinical skills within your professional field.

The role will primarily involve providing essential day-to-day holistic healthcare to a defined cohort of in-patients as part of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary team, in conjunction with a supervising responsible/approved clinician.

You will be required to cover two wards, Moor Green that is a low secure 15-bedded female ward and Hawkesley, which is a Medium Secure 15-bedded male ward. This cover arrangement may change over time.

Why join St Andrews

• Opportunities to progress -We will support you to apply for a Certificate of eligibility for specialist registration (CESR) provides a route for doctors who do not hold a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) to obtain specialist registration.
• Remuneratednon-residentfirst on calls
• Individual study budget of £500 per Specialty Doctor
• We sponsored many of our doctors to undertake MBA degrees
• The chance to be part of a community of Doctors on one site with a weekly multidisciplinary CPD and Grand Rounds programme that includes medics from the NHS
• Locums occupy only 10 per cent of our Psychiatrist roles. Our posts fill up fast
• Support in undertaking indemnified private practice and medico legal work though our community partnerships
• Opportunities for joint roles with the NHS in some areas
• Teaching Opportunities for medical students from Cambridge and Buckingham as well as Trainees
• Opportunities for research with our Research and Innovation Team
• Class leading analytics and data monitoring with extensive integration with our Electronic Records
• Electronic Prescribing on all our wards

We have experience of supporting Speciality Doctors to gain AC status and through the CESR process.

MRCPsych is preferable & membership with the GMC will be required.

For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Samantha Pendry in the recruitment team slpendry@stah.org

International Medical Graduates

We welcome applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK and you will be considered alongside all other applications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MRCPsych or equivalent
• GMC registered

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

St Andrew’s Healthcare

Address

St. Andrews Healthcare

70 Dogpool Lane

Birmingham

B30 2XR

Employer's website

https://www.stah.org (Opens in a new tab)