Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (10 PAs)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 367-HPFT-MEDICAL-483
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Pauls
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- Per annum dependent on experience
- Closing
- 01/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Psychiatrist Rehabilitation Psychiatry (ST Pauls)
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
HPFTs Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation pathway is designed for service users with complex psychosis and enduring Severe Mental Illness (SMI). The existing pathway currently includes secure services, High Dependency services, Community Rehabilitation Hospital Units, and a community rehabilitation service called Enhanced Rehabilitation Outreach service (EROS). All, but the high dependency beds, are provided by HPFT for Hertfordshire service users.
The Rehabilitation Service is recovery-orientated, valuing service users as partners in a collaborative relationship with staff to identify and work towards personalised goals for their recovery. The therapeutic approach of the Service takes account of the wishes and ambitions of the person using the service. Key recovery-orientated values in the Rehabilitation Service are the values of hope and of social inclusion, and rehabilitation staff maintain an approach of therapeutic optimism throughout all interventions offered.
Main duties of the job
To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.
To comply with the Trust's agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
To provide psychiatric care and clinical leadership through evaluation, diagnosis and use of appropriate treatment strategies to patients with complex psychosis in the
To provide Consultant Care and hold RC responsibility for patients discharged from
To provide a second opinion to colleagues from rehab and other services for the management of patients with complex psychosis if requested
To act as Section 12(2) approved doctor for Mental Health Act Assessments and prepare for and attend Mental Health Act review tribunals and renewal hearings.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Trust's personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
To participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- MRC Psych OR MRC Psych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Relevant higher degree, e.g. MD, PhD,MSc or other additional clinical qualifications
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Section 12/Approved clinician approval/willingness to complete S12/AC approval
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC with respect o warning and conditions on practice
- Endorsement in Rehabilitation Psychiatry
- CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on theGMC Specialist Register in Psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT/CESR at the time of interview
Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in psychiatry.
- Experience of close collaborative working with social care and other agencies
- Experience of working with service users who have complex needs within psychiatry
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
- Excellent degree of medical knowledge in relation to Complex psychosis and Rehabilitation Psychiatry
Academic Skills Lifelong learning
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver undergraduate or post graduate teaching and training.
- Participated in continuous professional development.
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
- Has actively participated in clinical audit
- Holds a full valid driving license and access to a car (Unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995)
Desirable criteria
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
- Evidence of achievement in education ,research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes ,presentations and publications
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change.
- Experience of organising and overseeing psychotherapy training program for psychiatry trainees
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rajesh Nehete
- Job title
- Medical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Colonnades
Beaconsfield Road
Hatfield
AL10 8YE
- Telephone
- 07971639527
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