Would you like to be part of leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care? Why not join Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust for theopportunity to flourish and excel in your career and be part of our dedicated medical team.
EPUT is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Specialty Doctor who will provide consistent, high quality Medical input and clinical leadership to support the Adult Inpatient service based at Cedar Ward and CMHT team, based at Rochford Hospital.
Cedar ward is a 22- bedded make ward for service users of adult working age.The ward provides inpatient psychiatric assessments, treatment and care to help reduce risk of harm to self and others.
The post holder will have shared responsibility for the clinical care of patients and will be expected to work closely with the consultant, GPs, Primary care practitioners team manager to ensure the provision of an effective responsive.
The post-holder will also be expected to work independently and accountably providing clinical leadership to the team, through good multi-professional working and liaising with a range of professional groups including nurses, occupational therapists, psychologists and doctorsin delivering services; providing a 7 day a week, 24 hours a day service for 365 days a year.
You should be eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold Section 12 (2) approval under the Mental Health Act 1983. You will also need to provide evidence of achievement of ST1/CT1 competences in psychiatry at time of application and likelihood of achieving CT2 competences in psychiatry by the start date of the post.
Rochford is a 35 minute train ride from central London. The local grammar schools have consistently being in the top 10 secondary schools in Southend nationally in the Sunday Times “Good schools guide” The Southeast area has a population of approximately 300,000 with Southend as a large area of deprivation.
Our Vision
“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.
Our Purpose
“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.
Our Values
We Care
We Learn
We Empower
Our strategic objectives
We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.
If you share that vision and want to make a difference to the people that use our services, then please contact us to find out more.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Open, Compassionate and Empowering. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
• Season Ticket Loan
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
· Admitting and discharging impatiens on Cedar ward at Rochford hospital.
· Reviewing patients independently or jointly with a consultant and trainee doctors during weekly ward rounds.
· Supervising the trainee doctors on the ward during their clinical tasks including correcting their discharge summaries; Writing discharge summaries for the most complex patients.
· Regular participation in the weekly MDT meeting and CPA meetings; supporting the other professionals on the ward as part of a multi professional team. Offering emergency reviews of disturbed patients as and when required.
· Preparing tribunal reports for mental health act tribunals under consultant supervision and present cases to the tribunal.
· Participation in Ward audits and other a quality improvement activities.
This advert closes on Thursday 5 Dec 2024