# Consultant Psychiatrist - Community Learning Disability

**Company**: Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: St Albans
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dynamic and innovative Consultant Psychiatrist to join the community learning disability services in West Hertfordshire. The successful candidate will provide cover to Elm ward.

**Job Summary** The Consultant Psychiatrist will be responsible for managing, appraising, and giving professional supervision to junior medical staff. They will also undertake administrative duties associated with patient care, record clinical activity accurately, and participate in service and business planning.

**Main Duties**

- Manage, appraise, and give professional supervision to junior medical staff

- Ensure junior medical staff operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant

- Undertake administrative duties associated with patient care

- Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively

- Participate in service and business planning activity

- Participate in annual appraisal for consultants

- Attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust and the team

- Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council

- Contribute to the on-call consultant rota

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications: MB BS or equivalent medical qualification, MRCPsych or equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists

- Eligibility: Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise, CCT in Psychiatry or Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry

- Clinical Skills/Knowledge/Experience: Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in psychiatry, excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective

- Academic Skills/Life Long Learning: Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training, participated in continuous professional development

**Benefits**

- Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 per annum

- Contract: Permanent, full-time

- Base: St Albans and Potters Bar Community LD services (West SLDS) and Elm inpatient ward

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## Skills

### Required
- bio-psycho-social perspective
- clinical skills
- communication skills
- medical knowledge
- professional registration

### Nice to have
- qualification in medical education
- clinical research
- management
- higher degree

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