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Specialty Doctor in Old Age Psychiatry - Willow Ward
| Posting date: | 30 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £59,175.00 to £95,400.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £59175.00 - £95400.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2024 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB21 5EF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9310-24-1181 |
Summary
This appointment is attached to Willow Ward, Fulbourn hospital. The ward is an 18 bed mixed sex unit for older adults with functional mental illness for assessment and treatment. The post holder will: Provide medical input to the day to day functioning of the Ward including the admission and treatment of the patients. Psychiatric reviews of service users supporting a multidiscipline approach. Regular participation and contribution to team handovers, ward rounds, and multidisciplinary Care Programme Approach (CPA) reviews. Work effectively to facilitate timely discharge of patients from hospital. Ensure effective and timely documentation, including admission and discharge summaries, Mental Health Act reports, progress notes, and communicating clinical decision making and management plans to relevant parties. Liaise with partner agencies, including acute hospitals, social services, primary care and private and voluntary agencies to ensure effective joint working in the provision of care to service users, for example, in discharge planning. To undergo annual appraisal and job planning. To contribute to audit activities and ongoing research activities. Actively participate in local and trust wide educational activities. The services regularly have medical student attachments and involvement in teaching is encouraged.