Consultant Psychiatrist Avondale Assessment Unit
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Main area: Psychiatry General Adult
Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 338-6871917-24
Site: Avondale, Miranda House, Hull
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be an award winner of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
We are recruiting for a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist on our assessment unit (Avondale) at Miranda House in Hull. Avondale is a 14-bedded in-patient facility, based in inner city Hull, offering assessment for people with various mental health needs across Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire.
As the Consultant Psychiatrist on Avondale, an ability to work within a fast-paced team is essential. The average length of stay on the unit is around 4 days, after which an individual is either discharged back into the community or transferred to one of our treatment wards for the continuation of their recovery.
The MDT works efficiently and effectively, comprised of professionals with a wide range of input and knowledge from experienced colleagues, including nursing staff, occupational therapy, social work, pharmacy, and junior medical colleagues, enabling timely and decisive assessments.
The post holder will join an established team of Specialist Consultant Psychiatrists in Working Age Adults alongside a wider established network of consultants covering all sub-specialties. Weekly teaching and peer-group events support professional and personal development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
* Have clinical responsibility for assessing and reviewing people who access our services.
* Have Responsible Clinician status and be Section 12 approved.
* Provide senior medical leadership to the multi-disciplinary team.
* Undertake the assessment and management of complex cases, care planning, and provide treatment formulation and guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
* Develop professional relationships with colleagues, promoting multi-disciplinary working.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC-rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East, and North Yorkshire.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust committed to staff development, valuing our colleagues, and investing in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas, demonstrating our commitment to improving the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality while challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss different working arrangements.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home, including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a consultant working for the Avondale team, you will have responsibility for the provision of safe and effective care and treatment. You will share the vision of integrated and multi-disciplinary working and actively engage in the development of the service through research and support.
The post holder is expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
The ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to appropriate means of transport is essential.
Please read our attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on this exciting role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
* Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
* Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
* Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
* In good standing with GMC regarding warnings and conditions on practice
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
* Excellent knowledge in specialty
* Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
* Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
* Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to the post within NHS or comparable service
ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
* Ability to work in and lead a team
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
* Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
* Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible, the Trust supports agile working. There is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position that involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important, therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT regularly.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would, however, like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship.
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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