Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- Speciality Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 270-MED448
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Berrywood Hospital
- Town
- Northampton
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Speciality Doctors - CMHT
Speciality Doctor
Job overview
We have 5 new Speciality Doctor posts in Adult Mental Health CMHT
1x Isebrook Hospital, Wellingborough
1x St Mary's Hospital, Kettering
3x Campbell House, Northampton
This job is well suited for a doctor wishing to take a break from training, doctors who want to gain entry to the specialist register via the Portfolio Pathway route or who wish to develop into a senior specialist within the SAS grade. You will be well supported to pursue all these options if you wish to do so, including with support with MRCpsych exam preparation, return to training, time to gain expertise in other areas of psychiatry required for developing as a specialist or for your Portfolio Pathway application .
There is no commitment to on call rota. The post holder maybe able to join the SAS on call rota depending on their experience or take on locum shifts. For the interested post holder wishing to join the on call rota substantively, renumeration is as per 2021 specialty doctors contract.
Main duties of the job
A typical working week is likely to include out-patient clinics, team meeting, liaison with other professionals including UCAT, clinical administration, Mental Health Act work in community and supervision. The post holder will also maintain close contact with his counterpart Specialty Doctor to provide input for patients from the Northampton catchment area. A specified number of GPs Surgeries are covered Northampton PCNs, therefore the post holder will support the Consultant input to the patch of GP Surgeries.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details about these roles please see attached job description or contact us on the details below
Person specification
Behaviours and Values
Essential criteria
- • In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- • Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
- • Ability to work independently as well as part of MDT
- • Able to form a good working relationship with the peer group
- • Willingness to undertake training and CPD in areas appropriate to this post
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Willingness to participate in in-house training
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Full GMC Registration ( or eligibility).
- • Minimum of 3 years SHO/Core Training or higher grade in psychiatry.
- • Previous psychiatric experience in General Adult Psychiatry
- • Eligibility or approval under Section12 of the Mental Health Act
Desirable criteria
- • Additional Postgraduate Qualifications
- • MRCPsych or equivalent
- • Publications or experience in writing psychiatric legal reports.
- • Management training
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- • Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels.
- • Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences including courts and tribunals
- • Ability to motivate and develop other medical colleagues and other MDT members
- • To balance individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust as a whole
- • An understanding of the political and financial framework within which the Services operate
- • Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- • Post holder will need to take initiative and work in a self-directed manner.
- • An understanding of the political and financial framework within which the Services operate
Desirable criteria
- • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- • Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- • Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
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
- Das Purkayastha Debasish
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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