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Consultant Psychiatrist, East ATS (RRP Applicable), Brighton
Client: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: fba02d4916ad
Job Views: 8
Posted: 23.01.2025
Expiry Date: 09.03.2025
Job Description:
Job summary
We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the East Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) in Brighton & Hove. You will be joining a mutually supportive, friendly and enthusiastic team with a real passion for what we do.
Brighton and Hove Community services are split into two main teams, East and West ATS, each one further subdivided into 3 smaller clusters. Each cluster has a geographical patch determined by alignment to a small number of GP surgeries, which helps facilitate good liaison with our Primary Care colleagues. This post will be in Park Crescent Cluster.
We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees.
This job attracts a Recruitment and Retention payment of £25,000, in addition to (up to) £8000 relocation allowance. The RRP payment is paid in the following instalments:
* £5000 payment paid on appointment
* £5000 retention payment paid at 12 month anniversary of employment
* £6500 retention payment paid at 30 month anniversary of employment
* £8500 retention payment paid at 48 month anniversary of employment
The Recruitment and Retention payment is pro rata for part-time employees.
Main duties of the job
We are a large multi-disciplinary community mental health team, which provides specialist assessments and treatment to patients presenting with a range of complex and unstable mental health and social needs.
As a consultant psychiatrist in our team, your main duties will be to:
* Provide specialist medical/psychiatric assessment and evidence-based treatment to patients referred to the service.
* Provide clinical supervision to the HST and informal advice and supervision to non-medical members of the team.
* Fulfil the duties of Responsible Clinician for patients subject to Community Treatment Orders including attendance at Managers Hearings and Tribunals.
* Mental Health Act assessments for patients on the team caseload.
* Liaison with inpatient Responsible Clinicians.
* Liaison with the forensic team/drug and alcohol services and risk panel as required.
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Brighton & Hove is a unique, vibrant and exciting place to live and work, offering a lively city life with the opportunity to get away from it all to the South Downs National park just on the doorstep. The city offers excellent access to London and is in close proximity to Gatwick Airport. Brighton is proud to be a diverse and inclusive city, and this is reflected in the staff mix employed by SPFT, and by the ethos of the Trust.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part-time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Job responsibilities
The successful candidate will work as part of the wider MDT and demonstrate:
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
* A wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to the post within NHS or comparable service.
* The ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
* Commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
* The ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.
Please see the Job description/person specification for more details about this post and the organisation.
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognize that care for patients is our top priority.
Qualifications
Essential
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* MRCPsych
Eligibility
Essential
* 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 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
* Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment.
Desirable
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
Clinical skills & Knowledge
Essential
* Excellent knowledge in specialty.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
Desirable
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
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Created on 23/01/2025 by TN United Kingdom
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