Specialty doctor

North London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London Weighting

Job summary

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is recruiting a full-time Specialty Doctor to work in In-Patient Services on acute wards at Highgate West Mental Health Centre. The post holder must have 4 years of post-graduate experience, with 2 years in psychiatry, and will work closely with the Consultant and Ward Manager to provide clinical input and contribute to service development.

Responsibilities include mental state examinations, history taking, MDT attendance, and potential involvement in

Qualifications

• 4 years post-graduation experience, including 2 years in psychiatry.
• Experience in psychiatric or foundation training as stated in the experience section.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and professional input to the ward team and participate in service development with the Consultant and Ward Manager.
• Perform clinical assessments including mental state examination and history taking, and attend multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Lead MDT meetings/work; participate in Mental Health Act Assessments and tribunal report writing as required.
• Gain experience across the full spectrum of psychiatric morbidity.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team including doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and discharge coordinators.

Skills

Psychiatry

Clinical assessment

MDT collaboration

Job description

The North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is recruiting one full-time Specialty Doctor to work in the In-Patient Services on acute wards in Highgate West Mental Health Centre.

The post holder needs to have 4 years of experience post-graduation, 2 years of this to be in psychiatry

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional input to the ward team and to take part in related service development activities alongside the Consultant and Ward Manager.

The post will offer the opportunity to perform clinical assessments of individuals with mental health problems including mental state examination, history taking, and attendance of meetings with the multidisciplinary team. Additional opportunities will include Mental Health Act Assessments, tribunal report writing and attendance as well as leading MDT meetings/work.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will gain experience within the full spectrum of psychiatric morbidity.

The post holder will work closely with the multidisciplinary team-consultant, other doctors, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers and discharge coordinators. The care delivered is recovery-focused, placing emphasis on individuals strengths and goals for the future.

Experience

• Previous experience in Psychiatric or foundaition training

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.

Depending on experiencePer annum plus London Weighting