Specialist Grade Doctor - Biggleswade CMHT

East London NHS Foundation Trust; Biggleswade; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Specialist Grade Doctor for the Biggleswade CMHT. The role involves providing clinical support for mental health issues, working in a multidisciplinary team, and requires significant experience in psychiatry. This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated doctor to make a positive impact on patients' lives.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support up to £10,000

Qualifications

• At least 12 years of medical work since obtaining a primary medical qualification.
• Minimum of six years in a relevant specialty.
• Experience in psychiatry clinical practice post medical qualification.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support for mental health assessment and management.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Conduct outpatient clinics and manage urgent patient needs.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Risk Assessment

Clinical Governance

Education

Medical graduation

Higher degree

Job description

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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, and motivated specialist doctor to join our outstanding community Service.

This post is for a doctor who has a completed a minimum of 12 years’ medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification.

A minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted. The doctor should be section 12(2) MHA 1983 approved (or achieve within 6 months of appointment), if not have Approved Clinician (AC) status/approval and be on the AC register.

A successful candidate would have the option of continuing ongoing work in a specialist doctor position, or be supported to pursue other routes for career. For example support to gain a Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CESR)

The post-holder would be expected to work autonomously and will be integral to a multidisciplinary team, accessing local CPD activities as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• 10 PAs
• The specialist doctor will work closely with other medical staff and multidisciplinary team, and will provide clinical support for the assessment and management of mental health issues on a routine and emergency
• On average 8 Programmed Activities per week will be devoted to Direct Clinical Care and 2 SPA (structured programmed activities).
• Assess new referrals and review existing patients. 6 out-patient clinics per week(as per the job plan) either at Charter House/Floball house)
• Additional clinics to see patients in emergency &/ or virtual/telephone contact with patients and their carers to manage urgent
• CPA reviews, Medical reviews, Professional meetings, Multi-disciplinary Team meetings, Case Conferences and home visits as
• Liaise with team members and provide advice to support them.
• Triage referrals regularly with Team Manager, team members and VSCE colleagues to provide a safe, prompt and appropriate service to the patients.
• Provide face to face and telephone liaison support to other secondary mental health teams, General Practitioners and Primary care Link workers
• Mental Health Act (day time rota) every 4-6 weeks (If Section 12/2 approved)
  
  

Working for our organisation

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Medical graduation
• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Higher degree
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983, or plan to gain approval within 6 months of appointment.
  
  

Knowledge And Experience

Essential criteria

• At least three years experience of psychiatry clinical practice post medical qualification
• Appreciation and social and cultural factors of relevant to psychiatric practice
• Experience of and commitment to clinical care of individuals with severe and enduring mental health conditions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of clinical work in Acute Adult Psychiatry
• Experience of Quality Improvement projects & Clinical Audit
• Good working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
  
  

Organisational Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
  
  

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work in multidisciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Self-motivating and innovative
• Clear, effective communication style
• Expertise in risk assessment
• A balanced approach to risk management, based on warm therapeutic interactions with service users
• Confident in therapeutic risk taking
• Commitment to clinical governance and QI
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability and commitment to work with carers and families
• Ability to adjust therapeutic approaches according to service users’ cultural needs
  
  

Teaching and Supervision

Essential Criteria

• Good teaching and communication skills
• Experience of teaching
  
  

Research and Audit

Essential Criteria

• Audit experience
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of research work, or service evaluation, especially in psychosis and cultural psychiatry
  
  

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other Reasons To Apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

What Next?

If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

As part of our recruitment process we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same..

If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please consider that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.

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