Description
This is an opportunity to join an outstanding Home Treatment team that is high performing, provides highly effective care, and has a wonderful supportive culture. The post is being advertised as a fixed-term for 11 months as the substantive post-holder is moving to another team in the directorate on a fixed-term secondment.
The successful candidate will provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and medical management of patients, including:
- Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients' capabilities, strengths, and resilience
- Mental state examination
- Clinical diagnosis
- Initiation and reviews of pharmacological treatments
- Leading multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation, and management of individual's risk
- Physical health assessments
- Referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services)
- Liaison with GP, community, and forensic services
- Reviews of clinical progress and care plans
- Assessment of readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning
- Safeguarding planning processes
- Consultation and liaison with families and carers
- Liaison with the criminal justice system, police, Courts, and probation when required for the care and management of patients.
The salary for this post is £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.
We are looking for someone who is fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment, included on the GMC Specialist Register, and approved under S12 or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.