Job summary
We are looking for a medical professional who
wants to work in collaboration with our service users, carers, and colleagues
to provide the very best treatment and care. Professionals who want to develop
and consolidate their clinical skills and competencies whilst working in a
hospital with a patient-centred ethos
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to provide medical
leadership and participate in strategic development of the service, to lead the
MDT and be the responsible clinician for the patients under his care, and to
provide high-quality psychiatric assessments of patients referred to the
service in a timely fashion.
About us
St Peters Hospital in Newport, South Wales offers accommodation split into single-gender units and provides specialist treatment and nursing care for men and women with degenerative neuropsychiatric conditions and Acquired Brain Injury. St Peters focuses on delivering positive outcomes for our patients, their families and our commissioners.
Patient Profile
St Peters provides care for individuals within four core patient groups:
- Dementia
- Huntingtons Disease
- Korsakoffs Syndrome
- Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)
- Organic Personality Disorder
A trusted NHS partner since 2005, we offer treatment to informal patients, individuals detained under the Mental Health Act as well as those undergoing treatment under the Mental Capacity Act.
St Peters also meets the needs of patients subject to Ministry of Justice restriction orders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clinical Responsibilities
- The post holder will be expected to provide medical leadership and participate in strategic development within the service.
- To provide high quality psychiatric assessments of patients referred to the service in a timely fashion.
- To lead the MDT and be the responsible officer for the patients under your care. To coordinate the global assessment and treatment options for the patient through integrative working of the MDT.
- The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
- To develop and regularly update the clinical risk assessment and management plans for your patients using appropriate techniques and tools as mandated by relevant NICE and other professional guidelines
- To produce high quality psychiatric reports for CTPs, CPAs, Hospital Managers Meetings , Mental Health Review Tribunals, Ministry of Justice statutory reports, police capacity reports, reports for court, and any other appropriate agency requiring information on your patients.
- To be participate in the Psychiatrist On call rota.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To strive to provide all medical treatment within NICE and RCPsych college guidelines.
- To contribute to and supervise the assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans of clients receiving care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi-disciplinary care.
- To provide expert consultation about the psychiatric care of the client group to staff and agencies as required.
- To always work according to the principles of clinical governance to ensure that psychiatric practice within LSHG is effective and ethical. To ensure that safeguarding issues are always considered in the process of clinical reasoning and judgement.
- To ensure evidence of consultation with service users, carers, families and other relevant stakeholders, in any area of service or practice that the postholder is responsible for or involved in.
- To cover psychiatric colleagues in the event of unavailability and / or absence.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Clinical Responsibilities
- The post holder will be expected to provide medical leadership and participate in strategic development within the service.
- To provide high quality psychiatric assessments of patients referred to the service in a timely fashion.
- To lead the MDT and be the responsible officer for the patients under your care. To coordinate the global assessment and treatment options for the patient through integrative working of the MDT.
- The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
- To develop and regularly update the clinical risk assessment and management plans for your patients using appropriate techniques and tools as mandated by relevant NICE and other professional guidelines
- To produce high quality psychiatric reports for CTPs, CPAs, Hospital Managers Meetings , Mental Health Review Tribunals, Ministry of Justice statutory reports, police capacity reports, reports for court, and any other appropriate agency requiring information on your patients.
- To be participate in the Psychiatrist On call rota.
- To make highly skilled evaluations and decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
- To strive to provide all medical treatment within NICE and RCPsych college guidelines.
- To contribute to and supervise the assessment, formulation, diagnosis and treatment plans of clients receiving care and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi-disciplinary care.
- To provide expert consultation about the psychiatric care of the client group to staff and agencies as required.
- To always work according to the principles of clinical governance to ensure that psychiatric practice within LSHG is effective and ethical. To ensure that safeguarding issues are always considered in the process of clinical reasoning and judgement.
- To ensure evidence of consultation with service users, carers, families and other relevant stakeholders, in any area of service or practice that the postholder is responsible for or involved in.
- To cover psychiatric colleagues in the event of unavailability and / or absence.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medication qualifications
- MRSPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for consultant position.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT.
- Approved clinician status for consultant position.
- Approved under S12 for consultant position
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MB BS or equivalent medication qualifications
- MRSPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for consultant position.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT.
- Approved clinician status for consultant position.
- Approved under S12 for consultant position
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).
Additional information
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).
