Adult Psychiatry Consultant

Medacs Healthcare; Leyland; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Medacs Healthcare is seeking an Adult Psychiatry Consultant for the prestigious Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves providing exemplary psychiatric care, collaborating with healthcare teams, and utilizing advanced medical facilities to enhance patient outcomes while engaging in research and educational activities. This position offers significant professional growth and a commitment to patient-focused care.

Benefits

Access to The Support Hub

Free CPD courses

24/7/365 support

Qualifications

• MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
• Hold CCT or CESR at the time of interview.
• 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.

Responsibilities

• Carry out new referral assessments and deliver therapy.
• Formulate care and treatment plans and prescribe treatments.
• Work in and potentially lead a multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Quick thinking

Patience

Attention to detail

Empathy

Education

MBChB or equivalent

CCT or CESR

GMC's Specialist Register

Job description

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Client Name: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Role: Adult Psychiatry Consultant

Location: Leyland

• Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care
• First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
• Competitive pay rates
• A dedicated placement officer
• Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
• Hundreds of new shifts available every day
• Long term jobs and short shifts available
• Revalidation support
• 24/7/365 support - we're here when you need us

Are you a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist looking for the perfect clinical placement?

The prestigious Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust has announced an exciting opening for an ambitious Adult Psychiatry Consultant. This opportunity promises to provide the right candidate with unrivalled opportunities for theraputic practice, academia and research.

As a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services at Leyland House. Here you have extensive opportunities to develop good collaborative therapeutic alliances with patients and patients' families while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors.

Working flexible shifts at Leyland House, you will enjoy close working relationships with your fellow healthcare professionals. Together you will seek to establish a common understanding of the problems the patient is experiencing, taking a lead role in establishing the strategic management plan for a patient, utilising your therapeutic skills to develop a constructive pathway to recovery.

The Leyland House takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously with an emphasis on ensuring excellence across the domains which matter the most to the wellbeing of patients. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical facilities in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research, and academia throughout your consultancy.

As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will be fundamental in developing, improving, and expanding the psychiatry provision within Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. Working alongside a cohesive team of dynamic, motivated, and progressive clinical professionals, you will play an active and hands-on role, using integrated biopsychosocial models to understand the cause of mental illness and manage mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.

In addition to your qualifications, as an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will have:

• Quick thinking abilities
• Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
• Excellent attention to detail
• A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
• A pro-active approach to research and academia
• Empathy and understanding
• A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills

Main Duties/Responsibilities

As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant with Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust you will:

• Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to follow up patients for medication reviews.
• Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other multidisciplinary team members.

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

• MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
• Hold CCT or CESR at the time of interview or in an established training programme and within six months of CCT
• Inclusion on GMC's Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT or CESR (CP) at interview.
• 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.

If you can demonstrate a commitment to the effective treatment of patients and to reflective practice, critical appraisal of evidence, using a variety of learning methods, mentoring, role modelling and research, you are precisely the type of Consultant Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are looking for. Apply today.