Hours: This position is a full-time role of 40 hours per week.
Location: Portsmouth.
Dates: This position is available immediately for 6 months initially.
As a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services with the adult mental health team. Your core responsibilities would be to help assess, diagnose, and oversee the mental health of patients in your care.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications:
* Full GMC licence to practice.
* Experience in psychiatry in the UK.
In addition to your qualifications, as a locum Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry, you will have:
* Quick thinking abilities.
* Patience and the ability to teach, coach, and mentor.
* Excellent attention to detail.
* A systematic approach to tasks and delegation.
* Excellent timekeeping.
* A flexible attitude.
* A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills.
Main Duties:
* Recognise, review, and report a patient’s condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
* Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to 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.
* Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
* Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
* Perform basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
Benefits of joining National Locums:
* Hundreds of new jobs daily.
* Approved supplier of all UK NHS & Private clients.
* Quick & hassle-free registration.
* Competitive pay rates.
* Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long-term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available.
* Locum or permanent positions.
* Lucrative referral scheme.
* Revalidation & Appraisal support.
* Subsidised online training.
Apply online or for additional information regarding this job please call Simon Adams on +44 (0) 1908 77 64 77.
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