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Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychiatry
Location: Dawlish, EX7 0NR
Salary: £105504.00 to £139882.00
Date posted: 31st March 2025
Closing date: 12th May 2025
Job Description:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the post of Consultant Psychiatrist on Chichester House, a low secure rehabilitation unit within the Langdon Hospital campus. This is a full-time post based at Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, Devon.
The Forensic Service at Langdon Hospital under Devon Partnership NHS Trust provides an inpatient and consultation liaison service for the 1.5 million population of Devon and Cornwall. You will be joining a very supportive and friendly consultant peer group which meets on a weekly basis.
Main duties of the job:
Chichester House is a 15-bed low secure ward for patients with significant mental health needs and a history of violence. The Consultant Psychiatrist will lead a multi-disciplinary team and provide forensic psychiatric liaison and assessment for Devon and Cornwall residents in high secure hospitals, prisons, local psychiatric units, and independent facilities.
Main duties include leading and coordinating care for 15 male patients, attending daily zoning meetings, weekly care and risk review meetings, operational management meetings, and HCR-20 meetings. The post holder will prepare reports, provide oral evidence to Mental Health Tribunals and Hospital Managers' hearings, and liaise with the Ministry of Justice, courts, probation, and MAPPA. The role also involves supervising ward doctors, core trainees, and higher trainees, with opportunities for teaching, research, and quality improvement.
About Us:
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing.
Our values:
We recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values, such as commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion.
Job responsibilities:
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person Specification:
Essential:
* Experience of teaching undergraduates and postgraduates.
Aptitudes and Values:
* Excellent communication skills.
* Evidence of ability to exercise leadership in a multi-disciplinary team.
* A commitment to respect, inclusiveness and diversity.
Experience:
* Prior experience working in an Inpatient Mental Health Team.
* Experience of psychiatric practice in a range of settings, especially the community.
Qualifications:
* Full Registration with the General Medical Council.
* To hold Approved Clinician status at the point of taking up post.
Management:
* Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and managers.
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.
Employer details:
Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Chichester House, Langdon Secure Hospital, Dawlish, Devon, EX7 0NR
Contact Information:
Medical HR Administrator: Aastha Chadha
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