Consultant Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry

Can you manage clinical complexity and uncertainty and makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others?

Main duties:

• Provide consultant leadership to the multidisciplinary ward team
• Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the mental and physical health for 11 acutely ill adult female inpatients
• Carry out all Responsible Clinician’s duties for those patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, maintaining all care planning in line with legal requirements. These duties will include: assessing patients under the Mental Health Act, capacity assessments, consent to treatment, tribunal report writing, attending Mental Health Act Review Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings, granting Sec 17 leave, revoking CTOs, recommending CTOs, etc.
• Assume clinical responsibility for adult patients with mental illness admitted acutely from community services (All admissions will be gate- kept by the Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment team)
• Undertake all work in the context of the recovery approach, which is emphasised across the Trust, placing the service user at the center of care planning and decision making
• Attend the ward on a daily basis to review patients, enable facilitation of the care program approach and involve carers when appropriate at each stage of the inpatient stay.
• Provide support and training to other health care professionals and support service users through the care pathway as required whilst working with other teams in the community setting

Cradlefin Consultants requires you to have:

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• On the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register – Psychiatry
• MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Right to work in the UK, or EU
• Current DBS, preferably on the DBS update service
• Two reference covering past three years (at least one from the current employer)

Cradlefin Consultants can offer you:

• Flexible hours
• A smooth registration and compliance process
• Excellent, locum pay rates
• Support with accommodation and travel expenses
• Registration and Referral bonuses (T&C’s apply)

If you are interested in working within the NHS or Private Hospitals we have locum posts all over the UK. Whether you are abroad and looking to work in UK, or looking for ad hoc shifts or a long term locum position do not hesitate to get in touch with our Medical Recruitment Consultants.