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Consultant Psychiatrist HMP Highdown

Job details
Posting date: 02 January 2025
Salary: £105,504.00 to £139,882.00 per year
Additional salary information: £105504.00 - £139882.00 a year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 January 2025
Location: Sutton, SM2 5PJ
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: C9333-25-0011

Summary

Clinical activities typically involve seeing patients in ordinary location for a new assessment or follow up. Patients can be brought to outpatient area when the prison regime moves out of lockdown. The postholder will be expected to attend clinical team meeting on Tuesday or Wednesday, attend relevant prison meetings for complex cases as required. The post holder will be expected to provide direct psychiatrist input into prisoners suffering from mental disorder. This will include providing outpatient appointments and also an element of crisis and risk management. It will involve contributing to weekly MDT meetings with partnership agencies in the prison and also chairing a weekly zoning meeting/caseload review with the mental health team. In addition, the post holder will be expected to contribute to Parole Hearings and meetings where requested and coordinate referrals and transfers to outside agencies and hospitals where needed.