Adult Consultant Psychiatrist

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Consultant Psychiatrist at Pinhoe View, where you can make a significant impact on the lives of patients with mental health issues. You'll operate within a multidisciplinary team, responsible for case management, treatment formulations, and ensuring effective care delivery in an inpatient setting. Benefit from competitive pay, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to enhancing mental health services.

Benefits

30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive annual salary

Life Assurance

Career development and training

Employee Assistance Services

Free meals while on duty

Qualifications

• Experience in General Adult settings.
• Experience in acute inpatient or community settings.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Management of complex psychiatric cases and formulation of care plans.
• Liaison with various stakeholders including care coordinators and families.
• Undertaking administrative duties associated with patient care.

Skills

Clinical care responsibility

Risk management

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Section 12(2) approval

Job description

This is a great opportunity to join an established medical team at Pinhoe View and make a real difference to men and women who have enduring mental health problems. As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you'll be responsible for the management of complex cases, formulating care plans and treatments, and guiding on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.

Main duties of the job

As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you'll be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide care and treatment for up to 16 patients. Your key responsibilities will include liaison and collaborative working with care coordinators, commissioners, families and carers, and other services/agencies, implementing the Mental Health Act, and undertaking administrative duties associated with patient care. You'll be expected to provide cover for other medical colleagues during leave and other absences.

About us

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Job responsibilities

As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you’ll know what it means to lead a team. To always strive for better. This is a great opportunity to join an established medical team at Pinhoe View and make a real difference to men and women who have enduring mental health problems.

Pinhoe View is a 36 bedded inpatient service which includes another full time Consultant Psychiatrist and two full-time associate specialists. In this role,you will have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team (Nursing,OT, Psychology and Social Work) to provide care and treatment for up to 16 patients supported by an Associate Specialist doctor.

As a Consultant Psychiatrist some of your key responsibilities will include management of complex cases, formulating care plans and treatments for individual needs of service users, and guiding on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.

As a valued staff member, you will have excellent CPD and professional development opportunities. You will work 37.5 hours a week, in a clinically rewarding environment and receive a highly competitive salary, along with a competitive pension scheme and a number of other benefits.

Key Responsibilities of the Consultant Psychiatrist include:

• Liaison and collaborative working with care co-ordinators, commissioners, families and carers and other services/agencies
• Mental Health Act implementation and liaison with Ministry of Justice (if applicable)
• Multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership working
• Undertaking the administrative duties associated with the care of patients including ensuring all NHSE contractual obligations are met and to ensure initial discharge summaries are sent out within 24 hours of discharge
• Maintaining professional registration with the General Medical Council and to abide by professional codes of conduct
• Maintaining section 12(2) and approved clinician status.

*The hospital runs a two-tier on-call system with first tier on-call provided by associate specialists and agency on-call. The post holder will be required to be part of the second tier hospital on-call as the duty Responsible Clinician.

You will be expected to provide cover for other medical colleagues during leave and other absences, which is reciprocated.

To be successful as an applicant you’ll need:

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Full GMC registration with licence to practice
• MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• To hold Section 12(2) approval to work in England and Approved clinician status
• Experience in General Adult settings and have experience of working in a multi disciplinary team.
• Experience of working within acute inpatient or community settings, ideally inpatient settings and have experience in risk assessment and risk management.

What you will get:

• Competitive annual salary
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
• A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution
• Life Assurancefor added peace of mind.
• Enhanced Maternity Packageso you can truly enjoy this special time.
• Free meals while on duty
• Employee Assistance Services
• Career development and trainingto help you achieve your career goals.
• Wellbeing support and activitiesto help you maintain a great work-life balance.
• Voluntary benefits
• Medical indemnity cover

There are also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers and much more.

More about this site:

Pinhoe View is a two 16 bedded wards- one male ward and one female ward. Patients maybe informal or detained under the Mental health act. Pinhoe View is situated in Exeter, in Devon which is a bright and developing city. It is ideally placed for rural living with proximity to the coast and several areas of outstanding natural beauty.

About your next employer

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification, Full GMC registration with licence to practice, MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Section 12(2) approval to work in England and Approved clinician status, experience in General Adult settings and in a multi-disciplinary team, experience in risk assessment and risk management.

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.