Specialty Doctor in Perinatal

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities

Season Ticket Loan

Annual leave scheme

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a full-time Specialty Doctor to provide high-quality medical support to Community Perinatal services in Chelmsford. The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team to support women with mental health issues during and after pregnancy.

Applicants must be GMC registered, have Section 12 (2) approval, and demonstrate ST1/CT1 competencies in psychiatry.

Qualifications

• Eligible for full GMC registration, holding Section 12 (2) approval.
• Evidence of ST1/CT1 competences in psychiatry required.
• Ability to achieve CT2 competences by start date.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical input support to Community Perinatal services.
• Serve patients across North Essex associated with local hospitals.
• Ensure appropriate resource allocation across areas.

Skills

Communication skills

Compassion

Empowerment

Education

Section 12 (2) approval

GMC registration

ST1/CT1 competences in psychiatry

Job description

Job Overview

EPUT is looking to appoint a full time enthusiastic and passionate Specialty Doctor who will provide consistent, high quality Medical input support to the Community Perinatal services for Essex, based in Chelmsford. The team provides multidisciplinary, community specialist care for the assessment and treatment of woman with mental health illnesses in pregnancy and postnatally across the County of Essex.

Main duties of the job

The post- holder will serve the needs of patients across the North of Essex, which includes the areas linked to the three main hospitals, which are Princess Alexandria in Harlow, Colchester General and Broomfield Hospital. This will be reviewed periodically to ensure appropriate resource allocation to the different areas and any changes made shall be after deliberation.

You should be eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold Section 12 (2) approval under the Mental Health Act 1983. You will also need to provide evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in psychiatry at time of application and likelihood of achieving CT2 competences in psychiatry by the start date of the post.

Working for our organisation

Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values
We Care
We Learn
We Empower

Our strategic objectives
We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.

If you share that vision and want to make a difference to the people that use our services, then please contact us to find out more.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Open, Compassionate and Empowering. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;

• Season Ticket Loan
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Please be aware that, due to current allocation constraints, Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) are being prioritised for registered roles at this time.

Important note: please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [e-mail] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Recently the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 (the Regulations) which amended on 22 July 2021 and come into force on 11 November 2021 that anyone directly employed to work in a Care Home or who are required as part of their role to be deployed to a CQC registered care home are required to have had both their COVID vaccinations, unless they are exempt. This is therefore a requirement of this role and will form part of our pre-employment checks.

staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.