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Consultant Psychiatrist in Community Mental Health Hub
YC72/YC73
Main area Psychiatrist Grade YC72/YC73 Contract Permanent: Fixed Term will be considered Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
* Other
10 sessions per week (Full Time) Job ref 33-D-MK-C-0005-P
Site Westcroft Health Centre Town Milton Keynes Salary £105,504 - £139,882 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/03/2025 23:59 Interview date 29/04/2025
Job overview
Community Mental Health Hub
Consultant Psychiatrist, (10 PAs) + on call supplement
Our doctors say that Milton Keynes Mental Health service are “good at adapting to new ways of working. They are open to out of the box thinking approaches and appreciate new ideas. The teams welcome those who would like to develop leadership skills, not only clinically but also through service development, and provide every opportunity to incorporate ideas and get them working.”
Applications for Consultant Psychiatrist to join our passionate and experienced medical workforce at the Community Mental Health Hub providing care for patients who need secondary mental health support. The Hub caters for service users with all diagnostic categories and is a needs-led service.
Within the Hub we are using Dialog+ to plan care and as part of our Think Family approach are actively engaged with families and carers. In line with the parity of esteem model the Hub supports the physical health management of patients with dedicated nurses for this purpose.
This is an exciting time to be joining Milton Keynes Mental Health as we are rapidly growing and developing our teaching programmes.
This post attracts a generous annual leave entitlement, study leave, the NHS pension scheme and other financial benefits, such as Relocation package for up to 8K and a range of lifestyle benefits, such as staff discounts, discount on the purchase and the lease of new cars.
Main duties of the job
* Provide senior clinical advice and support to the daily triage, MDT and other regular clinical team meetings.
* Ensure all referrals are triaged daily and responded to in a timely way.
* Assess new patients and provide clinical supervision of assessments carried out by other team members.
* Review complex needs patients to ensure appropriate care packages are put in place.
* Actively link and develop a relationship with the Primary Care Network(s) to respond to their developing needs and support the move towards more integrated care.
* Leadership role in the quality agenda: identifying areas for improvement and active engagement with QI.
* To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with Consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
Eligibility
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
* Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
* Approved clinician status
* Approved under S12
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Transport
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty
* Excellent clinical skills using biopsycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
* Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
* Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
* Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
* Excellent leadership and multi-disciplinary working skills
* Experience of using quality improvement methodology and service development
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
* Participated in continuous professional development
* Participated in research or service evaluation.
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
* Has actively participated in clinical audit.
* Supervisory and management experience.
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
* Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
* Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
* Has led clinical audits leading to service change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr. Lok Raj Job title Clinical Director Milton Keynes Mental Health Email address Lok.R Additional information
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