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Job summary

Main area
Psychiatry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs)
Job ref
186-3638246-VB
Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Sherwood Oaks
Town
Mansfield
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry - Beech Ward

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

This post is pending Royal College Approval.

This is a full time (10 PA) replacement Consultant post working on a female acute inpatient ward (Beech Ward), based at Sherwood Oaks. This is a permanent post.

Main duties of the job

This post will primarily provide daily cover for inpatients on Beech Ward at Sherwood Oaks. Due to the recent reconfiguration of the Trust, the post holder will also have responsibility for patients admitted from out of primary area. These will mostly come from the Nottingham City area. These admissions are divided up between other consultants on the unit with an established formula. The medical input to 70 inpatient beds is divided between 4 consultants with inpatient responsibilities on with maximum number of up to 9 patients under one consultant at any one time. The postholder will have clinical responsibility for the 17 female patients on the ward in an acute setting. They will provide senior medical input for the ir mental health, working closely with the multidisciplinary team. They will have RC responsibility for those patients detained under the MHA.

Working for our organisation

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire.Ìý We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions.Ìý We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To manage, appraise and give clinical supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Trust’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly to the Information Department

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To participate in annual appraisal for consultants

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the Medical Director and other managers in preparing plans for services.

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide high quality evidence-based senior medical care to patients in the acute care and locked rehabilitation settings.

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To work closely with multidisciplinary teams to help deliver person-centred care to patients.

·ÌýÌýÌýÌý To foster close collaborative therapeutic relationships with patients and carers to deliver person-centred care.

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
  • MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
  • Additional clinical qualifications.

Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • 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 with 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
  • In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hos Abed
Job title
Lead Consultant
Email address
[email protected]