Consultant for Adult Psychiatry

Client Name: Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust

Role: Adult Psychiatry Consultant

Shifts: 16th September 2024 to 20th December 2024

Location: Highgate Mental Health Centre, London, UK, N19 5NX

Benefits:

• Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and well being and enable you to deliver outstanding care

• 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 support - we're here when you need us

Are you a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist looking for the perfect clinical placement?

The prestigious Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust has announced an exciting opening for an ambitious Adult Psychiatry Consultant. This opportunity promises to provide the right candidate with unrivalled opportunities for theraputic practice, academia and research.

As a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services at Highgate Mental Health Centre. Here you have extensive opportunities to develop good collaborative therapeutic alliances with patients and patients' families while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors.

Working flexible shifts at Highgate Mental Health Centre, you will enjoy close working relationships with your fellow healthcare professionals. Together you will seek to establish a common understanding of the problems the patient is experiencing, taking a lead role in establishing the strategic management plan for a patient, utilising your therapeutic skills to develop a constructive pathway to recovery.

The Highgate Mental Health Centre takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously with an emphasis on ensuring excellence across the domains which matter the most to the wellbeing of patients. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical facilities in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research, and academia throughout your consultancy.

As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will be fundamental in developing, improving, and expanding the psychiatry provision within Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Working alongside a cohesive team of dynamic, motivated, and progressive clinical professionals, you will play an active and hands-on role, using integrated biopsychosocial models to understand the cause of mental illness and manage mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.

General key skills

In addition to your qualifications, as an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will have:

• Quick thinking abilities
• Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
• Excellent attention to detail
• A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
• Excellent timekeeping
• A pro-active approach to research and academia
• Empathy and understanding
• A flexible attitude
• A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
• Active listening skills

Main Duties/Responsibilities

As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant with Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust you will:

• Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to follow up patients for medication reviews.
• Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
• Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
• Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
• Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
• Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
• Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
• Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other multidisciplinary team members.

Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications

Essential

• MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
• Hold CCT or CESR at the time of interview or in an established training programme and within six months of CCT
• Inclusion on GMC's Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT or CESR (CP) at interview.
• 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.

If you can demonstrate a commitment to the effective treatment of patients and to reflective practice, critical appraisal of evidence, using a variety of learning methods, mentoring, role modelling and research, you are precisely the type of Consultant Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust are looking for. Apply today.