Consultant Psychiatrist - Learning Disabilities

Cygnet Doctors & Consultants ,
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
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Salary: Up to £140,000 Negotiable based on experience

Overview

Are you an enthusiastic and experienced Consultant Psychiatrist looking for a new challenge in Learning Disabilities? Do you want to join an organisation that truly lives its values? An exciting new opportunity has become available for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our team at Cygnet Sherwood Lodge. Cygnet Sherwood Lodge is a high dependency complex care service for men with learning disabilities, associated complex needs and who may have behaviours that challenge. As part of Cygnet Health Care, one of the UK’s leading independent providers of Learning Disabilities and mental healthcare, Cygnet Sherwood Lodge is a fantastic place to take your career forward. The Opportunity As a Consultant Psychiatrist you will have medical responsibility for patients across the service and work as part of a team to include; a Specialty Doctor, Allied Health Professionals, Psychology, Management, Nursing and Support Workers. In this role, you will have overall responsibility of patient treatment plans, whilst liaising with the multi-disciplinary team. Duties will include; screening and assessing referrals, mental state examination of service users, appropriate investigation / diagnosis and treatment, participation in ward rounds and clinical audit. You will also lead the implementation of risk assessment, risk management and embed clinical governance within the hospital. Be responsible for the supervision of reports for Mental Health Act Tribunals and managers' hearings and attend hearings whenever possible. This is a full time position, 40 hours per week plus regional on calls. In this role you will: Have medical responsibility for the patients at Sherwood Lodge Streamline and manage the admissions and discharges for the most efficient use of beds at the hospital Work as part of a multidisciplinary team (MDT); working collaboratively with Consultant Psychiatrists, Doctors, other AHPs on site NHS clinicians and commissioners who contract services from the hospital Working in close collaboration with service users and multidisciplinary teams to produce effective treatment plans for service users To have daily handovers from the nursing staff as well as all other appropriate meetings including MDT meetings, CPAs, NHSE CTRs, Tribunals and Managers’ hearings Participate in the Consultant on-call rota Are you the successful candidate we are looking for? Current experience as a Consultant Psychiatrist, GMC registration, Section 12 Approval and AC Status Experience of working in Learning Disability Psychiatry services Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team MRCPsych or equivalent In-depth knowledge of Mental Health Legislation Knowledge of risk assessment and risk management principles Proven record of Continued Professional Development (CPD) Excellent communication skills Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you… Salary up to £140,000 (negotiable depending on experience) Support from an onsite Specialty Doctor and multi-disciplinary team Medical indemnity cover CPD support and study leave Active participation in clinical governance Generous annual leave entitlement Contributory pension scheme Learning and development Requirements The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS and reference check and an offer of employment will be subject to successful clearance. Are you looking for a new challenge where you can make a positive difference? Click the link to apply. Please note - speculative recruitment emails are not to be sent directly to our clinical staff, these need to go via our internal recruitment team. If speculative candidates are sent directly to a member of the clinical team, we will consider these candidates as our own. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89893962

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