Specialist Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry - City Central LMHT
Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £83,945 - £95,275 per annum |
Hours: | Part time |
Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
Location: | Nottingham, NG6 9DR |
Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 6230432/186-4735946-VB |
Summary
Applications are invited for a less than full time Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health, at the City Central LMHT based at Highbury Hospital, Nottingham.
The post holder will
• Attend team meetings, support triage function of team, support duty workers with urgent clinical situations, undertake new patient reviews, including completing formulations and risk assessments, be available for clinical discussions with team members about patients on the team caseload, hold follow up reviews of patients on the postholders case load.
• Provide clinical leadership of team, engagement with MDT and RAMM
• Provide assessments of new patients and formulate treatment/care
• Support the triage functions of the team if requested
• To use evidence-based treatment and follow policy/guidelines
• To work collaboratively and liaise with other teams in the Trust
• To use the Mental Health Act, as appropriate
• To work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership
• To provide medical treatment within a model of multi-disciplinary care
• Attending weekly clinical team meetings and performing medical duties that are decisions of that meeting
• Compiling a patient’s history from a number of sources and preparing case summaries and discharge summaries where required.
• Preparing reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings and giving evidence in relation to patients on CTO.
• Liaising with other clinical teams within and outside the Trust
• Liaising with general practitioners and medical specialists with regards to physical health
• Exceptional assessment of patients out of area on rare occasions
Nottinghamshire Healthcare provides integrated healthcare services, including mental health, intellectual disability and physical health services. Over 9000 dedicated staff provide these services in a variety of settings, ranging from the community through to acute wards, as well as secure settings. The Trust manages two medium secure units, Arnold Lodge in Leicester and Wathwood Hospital in Rotherham, and the high secure Rampton Hospital near Retford. It also provides healthcare in prisons across the East Midlands. Its budget for 2023/24 is £628.2 million.
The Trust is committed to a sustainable future and works hard to reduce its carbon footprint and environmental impact across all of its many services.
The core local area the Trust covers is Nottingham and Nottinghamshire with a combined population of around 1.1 million people.
The main focus of the role will include the assessment of new patients referred to the service including students from the universities (Trent and Nottingham University), GP liaison work, management of patients within the recovery model, Mental Health Act work (Section 12) when required, day on-call duty rota (this will be based on a pro rata and on average 3 to 4 times a month for emergency work only, it is factored into the sessions and does not impact on work as it is a last resort cover), cover for colleagues when on leave and working within the multidisciplinary team supporting other members of the team. There will be an emphasis on providing leadership and consultancy to the team.
This advert closes on Friday 5 Jul 2024
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