Job responsibilities
Consultant Psychiatrist Medium Secure Hawkins
Location: Northampton
Full Time(part time or full
time will be considered)
Salary: Very Competitive plus package
and benefits
Suitable for an experienced Consultant
or someone due to complete their CCT in 2024 or early 2025
Due to the expansion of the service we
are looking to recruit a Consultant Psychiatrist to work in our Medium Secure
Service
You can achieve more at St Andrews
Healthcare
You will join a medically led
organisation which has 8 Psychiatry Directors as part of our Executive
Leadership team. This along with 30 other Consultant Psychiatrists based
in Northampton will give you the support you need to succeed and enjoy your
role whilst also having the opportunities to progress for the future.
For newly qualified Consultants we
provide mentoring where you will receive the support of an experience
Consultant colleague to help you through the transition to Consultant
Psychiatrist.
The Northampton site also has other
services such as Low Secure, PICU, Learning Disability, Autism,
Neuropsychiatry, Forensics, and CAMHS as well as our academic and research
centre providing opportunities to broaden and develop your skills. It
also has facilities such as a café, garden centre, charity shop, woodwork &
ceramics workshop all staffed by patients and service users along with other
facilities such as gyms and swimming pools for patients and staff to use and
all based in over 150 acres of beautiful woodland grounds (please see link
below for more details).
https://www.stah.org/who-we-are/locations/northampton/
Northamptonshire is also a great place
to live due to having good schools, very reasonable house prices and a good mix
of facilities within the town as well as villages and countryside. Based
in the midlands you have great access to the M1 and M6 and will be based under
an hours drive / train from London and Birmingham.
Our patients and your colleagues will
expect you to live the St Andrews CARE values of Compassion, Accountability,
Respect and Excellence every single day
The Service
Working within our Medium Secure
Service, you will be the Responsible Clinician in our specialist medium
service. This is a male medium secure ward that will provide care and
treatment for working age males with mental illnesses. This is a new ward that
will form part of an established and successful medium secure male service. You
will work closely with the other male wards and clinical teams to ensure the
pathways between the wards/services are maximised and meet patients needs as
they progress through treatment and recovery.
The Role
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team
and oversee the management of patients with often complex needs.You
will be able to promote innovation and improvement of services, with scope to
develop your specialist interests and grow your remit and responsibilities.
We will actively encourage you to be a leader nationally in mental health and
influence the future direction of services.
We are looking for an individual who
wants a role where they have the autonomy to make decisions that will help
improve patient care and outcomes. Someone who wants to join an
organisation and be a leader of a team who also shares this passion.
The Ward
Hawkins: We are looking for a consultant forensic
psychiatrist to develop a new service on Hawkins Ward. This service will be a
new 15 bed male medium secure ward for the assessment and treatment of working
age males with mental disorders including mental illness and personality
disorder. There will be a full MDT including psychologist, assistant
psychologist, occupational therapist, technical instructor, social work input,
and a junior doctor. Hawkins Ward will join our pre-existing male medium secure
wards to expand capacity, and will work closely with the other wards.
Development
We are extremely proud to empower the
careers of our medical professionals, and our Executive Medical Director and
all of our Clinical Directors have grown and developed into their current roles
within the Charity
We also support a number of our
Consultant Psychiatrists through an Executive MBA programme at some of the most
prestigious business schools in the country. There are also opportunities
to attend our regular internal CPD events and for you to develop a medico-legal
out-patient practice as part of the St Andrew's Consultancy Service.
The Person
The successful candidate will lead a
full MDT and help shape services further through strategic decision-making and
improvement projects whilst having support from a team of Junior Doctors,
administrators, personal assistantsand MDT specialists. You will
also be able to undertake research projects as part of St Andrew's commitment
to innovation and world-class care.
Applicants must have MRCPsych or
equivalent and hold a CCT in Forensic Psychiatry, Old Age Psychiatry or General
Adult Psychiatry
Reward
The post attracts a competitive salary with travel
allowance (with the option of additional remuneration for work undertaken via
the St Andrews Consultancy service), sickness policy on par with NHS, 41 days
annual leave including bank holidays, car lease scheme, free parking, cycle to
work scheme, ongoing CPDand much more...
Interested?
For further details please contact Dr
Alex Hamilton ahamilton@stah.org or our
Internal Recruitment Consultant,Samantha Pendry slpendry@stah.org
