Job summary
We will have a vacancy for a dedicated 0.6 General Adult Psychiatrist on rehabilitation service with experience working with patients with mental illness, substance misuse, and complex needs. Experience in neuropsychiatry, learning disability, and Autism desirable.
Main duties of the job
We seek to appoint a highly motivated General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to complement our existing medical work force. As a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, you would lead a multidisciplinary team of professionals from nursing, clinical psychology, and occupational therapy who will form part of the MDT.
The successful candidate will be joining an expanding and clinically diverse Priory. There is strong governance structure and the successful applicant will be expected to take an active role in service and quality development activities and to participate in governance meetings and Service Line meetings, as necessary.
Priory Kneesworth operates a Consultant second on call service.
About us
Priory Kneesworth provides a range of mental health services, including Acute, PICU, Secure, Recovery and Rehabilitation ranging from High Dependency to open services, supporting Mental illness, Personality Disorder, men and women.Priory Groups focus on quality improvement, combined with Priory Kneesworths focus on delivering patient-centred care allow us to continuously evaluate and enhance our performance.
Priory Kneesworth enjoys a stable and established MDT working model, which includes OT, psychology, and social worker and experienced RMN. The hospital offers a range of treatments and interventions including promoting least restrictive practice and patient collaboration in decision making. The service works closely with other Priory Healthcare services enabling and developing supportive care pathways. The site is well resourced to support complex physical health needs, provision includes practice nurses, dietician, GP, dentist, chiropodist, optician and SALT.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Taking clinical responsibility for patients, including multidisciplinary ward rounds, risk
reviews, strategic reviews and the development of a therapeutic milieu.
- Fulfilling the role of Responsible Clinician to patients detained under the Mental Health Act
(1983).
- Supervising the process of referral and admission including contributing to preadmission
assessments of young people with other team members.
- Offering a psychiatric perspective to the multidisciplinary team in relation to the assessment,
formulation and treatment of young people.
- Contributing to management meetings and clinical governance meetings for the services
provided at the hospital, and contributing to the development of service strategy.
- Contributing to in-house training programmes within the services and offering supervision to
other members of the multi-disciplinary team, particularly junior medical staff.
- Maintaining CPD and re-validation requirements, as determined by the Royal College of
Psychiatrists or other relevant statutory bodies.
Innovation
- Contributing to the development and evaluation of services in collaboration with the Lead
Consultant and Clinical Service Manager.
- Ensures the services and support provide offers good value for money and supports the
overall aim of the site.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Taking clinical responsibility for patients, including multidisciplinary ward rounds, risk
reviews, strategic reviews and the development of a therapeutic milieu.
- Fulfilling the role of Responsible Clinician to patients detained under the Mental Health Act
(1983).
- Supervising the process of referral and admission including contributing to preadmission
assessments of young people with other team members.
- Offering a psychiatric perspective to the multidisciplinary team in relation to the assessment,
formulation and treatment of young people.
- Contributing to management meetings and clinical governance meetings for the services
provided at the hospital, and contributing to the development of service strategy.
- Contributing to in-house training programmes within the services and offering supervision to
other members of the multi-disciplinary team, particularly junior medical staff.
- Maintaining CPD and re-validation requirements, as determined by the Royal College of
Psychiatrists or other relevant statutory bodies.
Innovation
- Contributing to the development and evaluation of services in collaboration with the Lead
Consultant and Clinical Service Manager.
- Ensures the services and support provide offers good value for money and supports the
overall aim of the site.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Experience/Skills
Essential
- They should be a good team player and be keen to participate in a multidisciplinary approach to
- assessment, formulation and management plans.
- The consultant agrees to hold and continue registration with the GMC including the relevant Specialist Register. The consultant will be expected to provide evidence of their registration, if requested, by the Hospital Director or Chief Medical Officer.
- The postholder will hold a CCST / CCT (or equivalent) in the relevant areas of Psychiatry and will have experience of working in inpatient settings with people with significant mental health
- difficulties.
Person Specification
Knowledge/Experience/Skills
Essential
- They should be a good team player and be keen to participate in a multidisciplinary approach to
- assessment, formulation and management plans.
- The consultant agrees to hold and continue registration with the GMC including the relevant Specialist Register. The consultant will be expected to provide evidence of their registration, if requested, by the Hospital Director or Chief Medical Officer.
- The postholder will hold a CCST / CCT (or equivalent) in the relevant areas of Psychiatry and will have experience of working in inpatient settings with people with significant mental health
- difficulties.
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.
