Competitive Annual Salary plus £8,400 car allowance and £10,000 signing on bonus
Job Description
Are you a Consultant Psychiatrist who wants to help shape mental health care for men and women across different levels of security? Join Wellesley Hospital, a friendly, committed and long established Mental Health Service.
Wellesley Hospital provides a range of medium and low secure mental health inpatient services, including male, female, and LD+A wards. Wellesley Hospital is a well-established provider in the South-west Provider Collaborative for secure services.
As a Consultant Psychiatrist some of your key responsibilities will include management of complex cases, formulating care plans and treatments for individual needs of service users, and guiding on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness. You will have a caseload of approximately 15-20 inpatients depending on the service user cohort and as a result may have a caseload across different wards.
You will have the opportunity for career development and you will have access to excellent CPD opportunities, a peer group of enthusiastic and high-calibre doctors and study leave funding to support your continuing education and training in line with your goals.
As a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be:
* Taking overall responsibility for patient treatment plans in conjunction with the MDT
* Assessing referrals to determine suitability for admission.
* Undertaking appropriate investigations, diagnosis & treatment
* Participating in ward rounds, clinical audit and quality improvement work.
* Chairing and overseeing CPA reviews.
* Leading the implementation of risk assessment and management.
* Participate in clinical governance and ensure implementation of policies and protocols.
* Working and liaising with external agencies.
* Writing and supervising various reports including for the Mental Health Tribunal and Managers’ Hearings, and attend hearings.
Medical first tier on-call is covered by an external agency. Consultants are expected to take part in second-tier on-call. This is a low intensity on-call at a frequency of approximately 1in7.
The post holder will be expected to provide cover for other medical colleagues during leave and other absences and this is reciprocated.
To be successful as a Consultant Psychiatrist, you will need:
* Full GMC registration
* MRCPsych or equivalent.
* To be on the Specialty Register for Forensic Psychiatry or General Psychiatry with forensic experience.
* To be able to lead and work within multi-disciplinary teams.
* To be in good CPD standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and to have had an appraisal within the last year.
* AC and Section 12(2) approval.
What you will get:
* Competitive annual salary
* 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off!
* A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) with a 10% 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
* Flexibility to work in clinically led environments
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.
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