Adult Psychiatry Consultant

Medacs Healthcare; Sefton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Medacs Healthcare is seeking a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist for a position at Mersey Care NHS Trust. The role involves developing effective therapeutic alliances, assessing patient needs, and leading multidisciplinary teams. The consultant will have access to advanced medical facilities and opportunities for research and professional development.

Benefits

Access to The Support Hub for well-being

Competitive pay rates

Free CPD courses

Dedicated placement officer

Revalidation support

24/7 support

Qualifications

• 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
• Hold CCT or CESR at the time of interview.
• Inclusion on the GMC's Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT.

Responsibilities

• Carry out new referral assessments and deliver therapy.
• Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe treatments.
• Support patients and families with clinical information.

Skills

Quick thinking

Patient communication

Attention to detail

Pro-active approach to research

Empathy and understanding

Education

MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent

CCT or CESR

Inclusion on GMC's Specialist Register

Job description

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• 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 Mersey Care NHS 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 Hartley Hospital - Southport. 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 Hartley Hospital - Southport, 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 Hartley Hospital - Southport 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 Mersey Care NHS 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 Mersey Care NHS 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.

So, if you are an experienced Consultant with the determination to ensure the highest standards of care are provided to all, apply today and be a part of the outstanding team at Mersey Care NHS Trust.