General Adult Consultant PICU

Athona Ltd; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to join their dedicated team in a specialized 10-bedded female psychiatric intensive care unit. The successful candidate will work in a fully supported environment focusing on individual patient care and management strategies enhancing recovery, offering excellent career development and a competitive salary.

Benefits

30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Contributory pension scheme

Life Insurance Policy

Medical indemnity cover

Free on-site parking

Excellent career development opportunities

Clinical networking and support

Qualifications

• Registered Consultant Psychiatrist with specialization in PICU.
• Experience in managing high levels of patient distress.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric care in a 10-bedded female PICU ward.
• Support and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team.
• Manage on-call duties on a 1:6 basis.

Skills

Patient management

Teamwork

Behavioral support planning

Education

Medical degree

Specialization in psychiatry

Job description

General Adult Consultant – PICU

Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Beds – 10 bed female PICU ward (Littlemore Ward)

Support – full time SpD cover (first on call)

On calls – 2nd on call basis, currently 1:6

Salary – £185,000.00

Located between Nottingham and Mansfield is a 28-bedded specialist acute and psychiatric intensive care service for female patients.

Offering individualised care packages for patients and specialising in managing behaviours that lead to distress, which is supported by a strong team of psychologists and occupational therapists. The multidisciplinary team specialises in positive behavioural support planning, to help patients in managing and developing new strategies to improve their distress and trauma.

10-bedded psychiatric intensive care unit for females of working age. The ward is proficient at nursing patients in a severe phase of their mental health illness and it integrates current best practice to promote recovery.

The multidisciplinary team has vast experience in managing high levels of patient distress, which allows the ward to admit from vast clinical settings including other mental health inpatients wards, and accident and emergency departments.

The site receives support from an experienced Specialty Doctor The services accept admissions 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The client seeks a highly motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to complement the existing medical work force.

The successful candidate will be joining an expanding and clinically diverse North Region

Benefits:

•A competitive salary

•30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

•Contributory pension scheme

•Life Insurance Policy

•Medical indemnity cover

•Free on-site parking

•Excellent career development opportunities within Priory Group

•Clinical networking and support from Priory Acute and PICU Network