Client Name: Mersey Care NHS Trust
Role: Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor
Shifts: 11 Nov 2024 to 31 Jan 2025
Location: Southport, UK - Hartley Hospital
Benefits:
* First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
* Competitive pay rates
* A dedicated placement officer
* Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
* Hundreds of new shifts available every day
* Long term jobs and short shifts available
* Lucrative referral scheme
* Revalidation support
* 24/7/365 support - we're here when you need us
This exciting role best suits an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor who is looking for a developmental position within a Trust renowned for their dedication to achieving excellence in all aspects of patient care.
This much-anticipated opportunity within Mersey Care NHS Trust, promises to provide the right candidate with unrivalled career development opportunities and support for clinical, holistic, and therapeutic practice, academia, and research.
As an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatric services for older patients or those with similar needs at Hartley Hospital. Here you have extensive scope to provide specialised and holistic assessment, treatment, and continuing care for older patients with dementia, memory problems, depression and a spectrum of psychiatric illnesses including delirium, schizophrenia, and personality disorders.
Working flexible shifts at Hartley Hospital, you will enjoy close working relationships with the entire mental health team. Together you will seek to establish a common understanding of the various problems patients are experiencing, set strategic management plans and utilise your exceptional therapeutic skills to develop a constructive pathway to management or recovery.
The Hartley Hospital takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously, emphasising excellence across the domains that matter the most to the wellbeing of older patients. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical facilities in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism.
As a dedicated Middle Grade Doctor, you will be imparting complex knowledge and championing skill enhancement throughout the entire hospital. Leading by example, you will encourage uptake for the wide range of development and support packages available, supporting and mentoring your fellow healthcare professionals in their continuous professional development.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, you will have:
* Quick thinking abilities
* Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
* Excellent attention to detail
* A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
* Excellent timekeeping
* A pro-active approach to research and academia
* Empathy and understanding
* A flexible attitude
* A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
* Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor with Mersey Care NHS Trust you will:
* Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy, refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or follow up patients for medication reviews.
* Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
* Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
* Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
* Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
* Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
* Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
* Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
* Help teach and train other junior doctors, medical students, and other multidisciplinary team members.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
* MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
If you are looking for a role within a Trust that continuously strives to achieve excellence and who are at the forefront of research into dementia and psychiatric symptoms of organic illnesses, apply today.