Client Name: The Birch Centre part of Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Locum Doctor, Consultant in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry
Rates: Excellent rates of pay
Location: Birkenhead
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As a Consultant Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services at The Birch Centre. Here you have extensive opportunities to develop good collaborative therapeutic alliances with patients and patient's families while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors.
Working at The Birch Centre, 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.
Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously with an emphasis on ensuring excellence across the domains which matter the most to the well-being 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.
Approximately 25% of the population suffers from a mental health problem in any one year, yet stigma and discrimination are still significant issues for those who use mental health services. In your role as a Consultant Child/Adolescent Psychiatrist, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how the provision of critical psychiatry services can transform lives, to anticipate developments in policy or practice and encourage evolution in service delivery.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a locum Consultant in Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, you will have:
12. Quick thinking abilities
13. Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
14. Excellent attention to detail
15. A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
16. Excellent timekeeping
17. A pro-active approach to research and academia
18. Empathy and understanding
19. A flexible attitude
20. A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
21. Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Consultant with Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust you will:
22. Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to follow up patients for medication reviews.
23. Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
24. Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
25. Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
26. Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
27. Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
28. Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
29. Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
30. Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other multidisciplinary team members.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
31. MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
32. Need AC Status.
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