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Specialty Doctor in City Central/Willows | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £52,530 - £82,400 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG6 9DR |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6266844/186-64548395-VB |
Summary
Applications are invited for a full-time Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health, at City Central LMHT/Willows. This will be based at Highbury Hospital.
The post is a community and inpatient role. The Willows is a male PICU with up to 9 beds.
LMHT - The main focus of the role will include the assessment of new patients referred to the service, 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.
Willows - The main focus of this role is to provide medical input for psychiatric clerking, mental state examination, regular reviews of the patients, attending ward rounds and MDT meetings.
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.
• Attend team meetings, support the triage function of the team, support the duty workers with urgent clinical situations, undertake new patient reviews, including completing formulations and risk assessments for these patients, 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
• Take a joint lead in the management of complex cases along with the consultants.
• Provide clinical leadership of team, engagement with MDT and RAMM
• Provide assessments of new patients and formulate treatment/care plans.
• Support the triage functions of the team if requested, with medical expertise.
• To use evidence-based treatment and follow local and national guidelines.
• To work collaboratively and liaison with other teams within the Trust, other NHS organisations and third sector providers.
• To use the Mental Health Act, as appropriate, within the course of their duties.
• To work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership way.
• 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 the physical health of the patients.
• Assessment of patients out of area on rare occasions, this will be in exceptional situations only.
• Attend ward rounds, undertake new patient reviews, including completing formulations and risk assessments for these patients, be available for clinical discussions with team members about patients.
• Preparing reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings.
This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024
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