Locum Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health Inpatients

Locum Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health Inpatients Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established team on an inpatient adult mental health unit at Roseberry Park, Middlesbrough. There are 4 wards, plus a PICU which takes admissions from the Teesside area.

Main duties of the job

1. To provide high quality clinical care to service users within the ambit of their Inpatient teams. Reasonable changes in work plan will be discussed with the post holder as required.
2. To assess patients (inpatients) when requested by team colleagues, formulate initial treatment plans, arrange required investigations, seek supervision from nominated consultant psychiatrist as required.
3. Attend daily inpatient report out in the wards, formulation meetings and discharge planning.
4. Support junior doctors in their day-to-day tasks and training (by assisting with work place based assessments).
5. Assist the Consultants with MHA responsibilities mainly preparing Tribunal reports and attending hearings when it is appropriate.

About us

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range of inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas.

We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust takes a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be, helping TEWV to do things better.

Job responsibilities

For more information on the job description, including CPD, teaching, appraisal, research information as well as items around the trust and the post specifically, please see the attached job description. The job description has not been approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Person Specification Teaching & Training

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including at least 2 years in a core psychiatry training programme in UK or abroad.
• Approved under S12 of MHA OR able to achieve within 6 months of appointment.
• MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification.

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

• Good knowledge of psychiatry.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.

Research, Audit & Quality Improvement

• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology.
• Participated in research and/or service improvement.

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust