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Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist Community

  • Location:

    Solihull

  • Sector:

    Psychiatry

  • Contact:

    Lisa Thomas

  • Salary:

    £93666 - £126281 per annum

  • Job type:

    Permanent - full time

  • Contact email:

    perm.doctors@msigroupltd.com

  • Job ref:

    32434_1714142800

  • Published:

    11 days ago

  • Startdate:

    Negotiable

Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - Community

Hours: Full Time 10 Pas

Contract: Permanent

Location: Solihull

Salary: £93, 666 - £126, 281 per annum

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to be part of a new model of community mental health care working across an Integrated Care System.

If you are dedicated to providing partnership care and being part of an innovative development of Neighbourhood MDTs, in a city centre of cultural diversity, this is the role for you!

The Trust is the second largest city in the UK which has a wide range of cultural, social, sporting and leisure opportunities. They operate out of more than 50 sites and serve a culturally and socially diverse population of 1.2 million spread over 172 square miles.

You will be working in one of the two CMHTs in the area looking after adults over the age of 25 years.

In return for your commitment, expertise, creativity, and ambition they will invest in your continued professional development, encourage you to develop special interests, undertake research activities, forge links with academic centres or progress managerial aspirations to help you reach your full potential.

Key role and responsibilities for the Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist role:

  • Assessing new referrals from GPs and other referrers, including transfers from Home Treatment teams and internal transfers from other teams within the Trust.
  • Making an appropriate diagnosis.
  • Formulating management plans in the short term and long term.
  • Develop risk assessment and management plans in conjunction with the Multidisciplinary team, service user, carers and other involved agencies and facilitate maximum empowerment of the service user and carer in developing informed choice of treatment interventions.
  • Be the Responsible Clinician and be willing to undertake training to obtain section 12(2) MHA and renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
  • Doctors work closely with the other members of the CMHT (Junior doctors, Specialist trainees, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), an excellent group of CPNs, OTs, psychologists and psychotherapists with various approaches, physical health practitioners, and dietician).
  • 50% of working time should be dedicated to face-to-face contact with patients and it anticipated that there shall be at least 32 such contacts per week (with a new assessment generally counting as 2 contacts).

Minimum requirements for the Consultant Psychiatrist is:

  • MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
  • Full GMC registration with licence to practice.
  • MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
  • Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status.
  • Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting

Discover more about this exciting opportunity to contribute to making a difference. If you're intrigued, apply today!