Specialist Grade in General Adult Inpatient Psychiatry
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
Main area: General Psychiatry
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 7 sessions per week
Job ref: 354-AB-20884
Site: Mill View Hospital
Town: Hove
Salary: £96,990 - £107,155 Pro rata for part time working
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/04/2025 23:59
Come and join us
We're looking for people who share our values (compassion, accountability and optimism) to help us provide high quality care to the patients, carers, families and local communities we serve. We specialise in providing NHS mental health and learning disability services.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Sussex Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Grade doctor to join our acute services at Mill View Hospital in Hove. This is a new Specialist Grade doctor post. The Specialist Grade doctor will work with working age patients on Brunswick Ward (7PA's), a 13 bedded acute adult mental health ward alongside a 0.8WTE Consultant Psychiatrist. This post is one example of the commitment of the Trust to ensure career development for our senior medical team workforce and to develop enhanced provision and capacity for families and carers using the service in challenging times.
Brunswick Ward is situated in Mill View Hospital where there are 4 other acute wards with their own fully established medical teams. The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is located within the hospital and accepts referrals from acute wards to facilitate supportive discharges. Mill View Hospital is also the base for some of the Brighton and Hove Community Mental Health Teams.
The Specialist Grade doctor will work closely with the Consultant and support the multi-disciplinary Team, which also includes resident doctors to deliver a person-centred mental health care. You will be supported by nursing staff, occupational therapists and psychologists to support, formulate and implement treatment plans.
Main duties of the job
The Specialist Grade doctor will provide specialist medical and psychiatric assessment and treatment including, when appropriate, physical investigations of patients. You will provide senior medical leadership to the ward multidisciplinary team and take the lead in managing complex cases. You will provide specialist medical advice and consultation to a range of health and social care staff to promote effective delivery of person-centred mental health care. You will provide leadership and clinical supervision to the Resident Doctors alongside the Consultant. You will complete appropriate Mental Health Act assessments, related medical and administrative documents including Mental Health Tribunal reports. The post holder will operate within the professional code of conduct, guidelines, policies, procedures and legislation relevant to the post. You will provide cover for female patients admitted to the single-bedded Health Based Place of Safety at Mill View Hospital when required. You will provide cover for Approved Clinical work to colleagues in the acute pathway upon the rota/request.
Working for our organisation
At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.
You will have access to the Trust's SAS Tutor and Advocate who can signpost regarding support around a range of issues. You will be encouraged to develop your network through SAS development days and through use of CPD via the study leave process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities. We are awaiting approval from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
* Completed a minimum of 12 years’ medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification.
* A minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including from overseas will also be accepted.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
* To be section 12(2) MHA 1983 approved (or achieve within 6 months of appointment), if not have Approved Clinician (AC) status/approval and be on the AC register.
Professional Values and Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge
* Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
* Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
* Communicates effectively and is able to share decision-making with patients, relatives and carers; treats patients as individuals, promoting a person-centred approach to their care, including self-management.
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
Leadership and Teamworking
* Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
* Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams – promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
* Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
* Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.
We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers.
Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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