Consultant Psychiatrist -Medium Secure - x2 vacancies
Working within our Medium Secure Service, you will be the Responsible Clinician in our specialist medium service. This is a male medium secure ward that will provide care and treatment for working age males with mental illnesses. This is a new ward that will form part of an established and successful medium secure male service. You will work closely with the other male wards and clinical teams to ensure the pathways between the wards/services are maximised and meet patients' needs as they progress through treatment and recovery.
Main duties of the job
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the management of patients with often complex needs. You will be able to promote innovation and improvement of services, with scope to develop your specialist interests and grow your remit and responsibilities. We will actively encourage you to be a leader nationally in mental health and influence the future direction of services.
We are looking for an individual who wants a role where they have the autonomy to make decisions that will help improve patient care and outcomes. Someone who wants to join an organisation and be a leader of a team who also shares this passion
About us
St Andrew's is a not for profit Charity - we have no shareholders and any surplus we make is ploughed straight back into our services. We are part of the Specialist Provider Collaboratives in the East and West Midlands and are a member of the East Midlands Alliance. Our services in Northampton, set in 150 plus acres of woodland greenery are spread across 5 Divisions – Medium Secure, Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitation, Learning Disability and Autism, Neuropsychiatry and CAMHS. We have a number of unique specialist national services including our Deaf Forensic Service, Huntington's Service, Secure Brain Injury Service, Older Adults
Job responsibilities
Make a difference for yourself and your patients
Consultant Psychiatrist - x2 vacancies - please ask for more details
Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire
0.8 WTE & 0.6 WTE- We welcome Full-time applicants as we can consider you forother roles in the Charity
Salary: Total package up to £150,000 depending on experience
Suitable for an experienced Consultant or someone due to complete their CCT in the next 6 months.
St Andrews is a not for profit Charity - we have no shareholders and any surplus we make is ploughed straight back into our services. We are part of the Specialist Provider Collaboratives in the East and West Midlands and are a member of the East Midlands Alliance. Our services in Northampton, set in 150 plus acres of woodland greenery are spread across 5 Divisions Medium Secure,Low Secure and Specialist Rehabilitation, Learning Disability and Autism,Neuropsychiatry and CAMHS. We have a number of unique specialist nationalservices including our Deaf Forensic Service, Huntingtons Service, SecureBrain Injury Service, Older Adults Secure Services, Blended Womens Service(one of 3 National Pilots) and a specialist inpatient DBT service.
The Role
Working within our Medium Secure Service, you will be the Responsible Clinician in our specialist medium service. This is a male medium secure ward that will provide care and treatment for working age males with mental illnesses. This is a new ward that will form part of an established and successful medium secure male service. You will work closely with the other male wards and clinical teams to ensure the pathways between the wards/services are maximised and meet patients needs as they progress through treatment and recovery.
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the management of patients with often complex needs. You will be able to promote innovation and improvement of services, with scope to develop your specialist interests and grow your remit and responsibilities. We will actively encourage you to be a leader nationally in mental health and influence the future direction of services.
We are looking for an individual who wants a role where they have the autonomy to make decisions that will help improve patient care and outcomes. Someone who wants to join an organisation and be a leader of a team who also shares this passion.
If you would like to be part of working with an innovative and dynamicteam; be able to develop and deliver up to date treatments; and work in asupportive environment then this is the place for you This will be apersonally and professionally rewarding role. The post-holder will be able to undertake non-clinical activities of interest e.g. research, teaching, governance and management - in an innovative way, and influence the directionof services in order for them to attain the best outcomes for our patients.
You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the management ofpatients with often complex needs. You will be able to promoteinnovation and improvement of services, with scope to develop your specialistinterests and grow your remit and responsibilities. You will have an office and the support of an associate specialist as ward doctor and a full MDTincluding Clinical Administrators and Personal Assistants dedicated to your wards and service.
We are looking for an individual who wants a role where they have the autonomy to make decisions that will help improve patient care and outcomes andhas a passion about transforming care. Someone who wants to join anorganisation and be a leader of a team who also shares this passion.
Why join St Andrews
Opportunities to progress Most ofour senior medical managers started off as Consultants in the Charity
Speciality Doctor and PhysicalHealthcare team support
Infrequent non resident second oncalls with 24 hour first on call cover
Individual study budget of £1,000 perConsultant
We sponsored many of our doctors toundertake MBA degrees
The chance to be part of a communityof Consultants on one site with a weekly multidisciplinary CPD and Grand Roundsprogramme that includes colleagues from the NHS
Only 10 per cent of our ConsultantPsychiatrist roles are occupied by locums. Our posts fill up fast
Support in undertaking indemnifiedprivate practice and medicolegal work though our community partnerships
Opportunities for joint roles with the NHS in some areas
Teaching Opportunities for medicalstudents from Cambridge and Buckingham as well as Trainees
Opportunities for research with our Research and Innovation Team
Class leading analytics and datamonitoring with extensive integration with our Electronic Records
Electronic Prescribing on all our wards
Other benefits:
Travel allowance, pension, 32 days of Annual Leave plus Bank Holidaysand your birthday off, free parking, sickness policy on par with the NHS,secretarial support and more
International Medical Graduates
We welcome applications from job seekers who require current SkilledWorker sponsorship to work in the UK and you will be considered alongside allother applications. Please contact if you would like moredetails on how we can support you.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Applicants must hold GMC Registration and must have MRCPsych or equivalent.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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