Forensic Psychiatry
| Posting date: | 22 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 January 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, Merseyside, L13 4AW |
| Company: | Medacs Healthcare |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | HQ031QXP_1737493304 |
Summary
Client Name: Mersey Care NHS
Role: Psychiatry Doctor - Forensic Psychiatry
Location: Rathbone Hospital
Benefits:
- First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
- Competitive pay rates
- A dedicated placement officer
- Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
- Hundreds of new shifts available every day
- Long term jobs and short shifts available
- Lucrative referral scheme
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service, we're available when you need us
Are you a registered Psychiatric Doctor looking for a new challenge where you can put your in-depth mental health training to use every day? Medacs Healthcare is looking for medical professionals who are passionate about, and experienced in, the science of psychiatry.
Working flexible shifts at Rathbone Hospital, you will diagnose and treat patients with a wide range of mental health, behavioural and emotional disorders in the role of Psychiatric Doctor.
The setting in which you are based will be wide-ranging too. As a Psychiatric Doctor you may be based in either inpatients or outpatients at Rathbone Hospital, or rehabilitation environments. You may need to visit your patients in residential care, prisons, schools, or in their own homes.
Skills focus
The work of a Psychiatrist is always engaging and challenging, sometimes moving, occasionally frustrating but often rewarding, sometimes when this is least expected. You will frequently liaise with and learn from highly experienced colleagues in other medical fields such as general medicine, radiology, or neurology and with non-medical
colleagues including psychologists and social workers. There is always someone on hand to turn to for advice, or to chat to.
Patient focus
We are keen to speak with talented individuals who are enthusiastic about the prospect of helping people to overcome and/or manage the full range of mental health problems.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Psychiatry Doctor, you will have:
- Experience of working in a Psychiatrics/mental health role
- In depth knowledge of current mental health theory and treatments
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to listen carefully to patients
- Empathy
- Resilience and the ability to keep some emotional distance from cases/patients
- First-class analytical skills
- Ability to remain calm under pressure and in heated situations
- Good teamworking skills and able to provide clear instruction to co-workers
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As a Psychiatry Doctor with Mersey Care NHS you will:
- Work with patients experiencing a range of mental health problems
- Assess and evaluate patients
- Analyse data and test results to form accurate diagnoses
- Create appropriate and bespoke treatment plans for patients
- Effectively communicate plans of action to other team members (i.e., nursing staff, social workers, etc.)
- Ensure consistency throughout the duration of treatment
- Prescribe and administer medications
- Recognise signs of conditions worsening and intervene where people are at risk of self-harming or hurting others
- Keep patient records and medical histories updated
- Uphold the highest standards of practice and care and act as a professional representative of your organisation
- Research your specialist area(s) and remain up to date with the latest medical guidelines
- Promote health and wellbeing best practices
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
- MBBS or equivalent medical degree
- Full registration with the GMC
- A full Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
A business with a future
If you are ready to work in a hospital that prides itself on the opportunities provided to staff and the care provided to patients, apply today, and work with Medacs Healthcare and enjoy access to hundreds of shifts, a dedicated Placement Officer and revalidation support.