Clinical Fellowship

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Overview

Applications are invited from candidates for a  Clinical  Fellowship post in Psychiatry at Leicester Medical School and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.  You will be a trainee who has satisfactorily attained MRCPsych and eligible  for an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) from Core or Higher Speciality Training or in a gap between core and higher training.

All applicants  must be fully registered with the GMC and must hold a license to practice.

Job Description Summary (Main duties and responsibilities)

The clinical aspect of the post includes experience of old age liaison psychiatry within the Mental Health Liaison Team based in University Hospitals of Leicester at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. There will be appropriate clinical supervision in place for the trainee. The Fellow will be involved in supporting the learning needs of undergraduate medical and nursing students in clinical placement.  

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. 

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• MRCPsych passing all components of exam
• Has either successfully completed the UK Foundation Programme with ARCP Outcome 1 or CREST form
• Primary medical qualification
• Full registration GMC with License to Practice or expected to achieve within 3 months

Desirable

• Additional related qualifications, eg intercalated degree, BSc, BA, BMedSci or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Interest in/knowledge of the delivery of safe effective healthcare services
• Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management, evidencebased practice, patient safety, and clinical quality improvement
• Evidence of effective team working and leadership, supported by multisource feedback or other workplace-based assessments
• Interest in/knowledge of the importance of leadership and management for clinicians
• Demonstrates basic computer literacy, including electronic communication
• Communication skills: demonstrates clarity in written/spoken communication
• Able to build rapport, listen, persuade and negotiate
• Managing others and team involvement: able to work in multiprofessional teams
• Problem solving and decision-making skills indicating an analytical/scientific approach
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• Organisation and planning: capacity to manage/prioritise time and information effectively,
• Coping with pressure and managing uncertainty:
• demonstrates initiative and resilience
• Demonstrates probity: displays honesty, integrity, aware of ethical dilemmas, respects confidentiality

Desirable

• Publications/presentations
• Evidence of publications/presentations/prizes in quality improvement or audit
• Experience of using quality improvement tools
• Completed all stages of audit cycle
• Evidence of aptitude, interest and experience of undergraduate medical teaching Evidence of feedback for teaching
• Evidence of achievement outside of medicine
• Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine
• Evidence of organisational skills not necessarily in medicine
• Project management skills
• Clinical and/or nonclinical topics
• Peer reviewed publications and/or other communication medium (eg blog, letters etc)
• Demonstrates information technology skills
• Achievements outside of medicine

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicester Royal Infirmary

Infirmary Square

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE1 5WW

Employer's website

https://www.leicspart.nhs.uk/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)