Adolescent Psychiatry Doctor
| Posting date: | 27 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 February 2025 |
| Location: | Keynsham, Somerset, BS31 1HA |
| Company: | Medacs Healthcare |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | HQ031SFT_1738006518 |
Summary
Client Name: Oxford Health NHS Foundation
Role: Psychiatry Doctor
Location: Keynsham
Benefits:
- Over 5,000 new job requests received every week. Approved supplier on every NHS medical locum framework
- Priority access and first sight of large number of jobs across multiple NHS trusts/health boards
- Competitive pay rates
- Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available
- A dedicated point of contact
- Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
- Lucrative referral scheme
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service - we are available when you need us
- Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
Working flexible shifts at Temple House - Keynsham, 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 Temple House - Keynsham, or rehabilitation environments. You may need to visit your patients in residential care, prisons, schools, or in their own homes.
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
Skills focus
From depression and anxiety, eating disorders, bipolar and PTSD; to dementia, phobias, schizophrenia and drug and alcohol misuse, mental health conditions are currently some of the most prevalent illnesses in the UK. If you have a wide variety of skills and experience, apply today.