This is an exciting opportunity to join a brand-new acute Mental Health service that's opening in Summer 2024. As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will play a key role in shaping the care pathways and building the culture alongside the senior leadership team. The role involves providing treatment for women and men who may have suffered trauma and are affected by mental disorders, with the support of a non-consultant grade doctor and Lead Consultant Psychiatrist.
Main duties of the job
As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will take on RC responsibility for Dunnock View (subject to final CQC registration). Your responsibilities will include ensuring people admitted are assessed, treated, and discharged safely, medication management, quality assurance, complaints and co-production, delivery of NICE guidance, and leading the CPA and ICR process. You will also be required to take part in the On Call Consultant rota.
Job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:
* Ensure that people admitted are assessed, treated, and discharged safely
* Medication management
* Quality assurance, complaints and co-production
* Delivery of NICE guidance
* Lead and manage the CPA and ICR process to ensure full compliance with quality standards
To be successful in this role, you'll need to:
* Be medically qualified, MRC Psych or equivalent
* Be innovative and imaginative with the ability to initiate corporate decisions
* Have essential understanding of current developments in psychiatry and other aspects of mental health
* Have substantial knowledge of change management, relevant legislation, contemporary issues in mental health, knowledge of and experience in purchaser/provider contractual issues
* Have previous Consultant experience
What you will get:
* Competitive annual salary
* 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
* A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.
* Free meals while on duty
* Employee Assistance Services
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
* Voluntary benefits
* Medical indemnity cover
About your next employer: You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* You should be medically qualified, with MRC Psych or equivalent, and have previous Consultant experience.
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.
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