Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor (HQ0315NP) Boston, England
Role: Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor
This much-anticipated opportunity within Lincolnshire Partnership 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 Pilgrim 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 Pilgrim 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 Pilgrim 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.
In your role as an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how the provision of critical, person-centred, individualised care that promotes independence and prioritises choice can transform lives.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
* MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
* 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
Main Duties/Responsibilities
* 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.
* Perform 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.
If you are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes for elderly patients by combining skill and expertise with clinical leadership and critical decision making, we want to hear from you. Apply today.
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