Description
We are excited to invite applications for a full-time SAS Doctor (Psychiatry) to join our Hounslow Central MINT team, funded through our local transformation program.
In this role you will bring specialist psychiatric skills to a PCN-based, multidisciplinary community mental health service -- working alongside a dedicated Consultant Psychiatrist in each Primary Care Network and forging close partnerships with GPs.
Our Hounslow model adopts a whole-person, whole-population approach: integrating health and social care, collaborating with VCSE organisations and local community groups, and drawing on all available resources to support mental wellbeing both within and beyond traditional NHS services.
Main duties of the job
- Being an integral part of an enthusiastic multi-disciplinary community team
- Learning to work with team members in appropriate decision making, risk management and care planning in line with new ways of working in the NHS
- Developing close liaison with all sector teams and Consultants and becoming skilled at maintaining good working relationships
- Developing skills in working with the wider social system of patients, using techniques from various therapies and family therapy
- Ability to work flexibly and to adapt practice to changing service models, rather than traditional work patterns
Person Specification
- Education and Qualifications:
+ Primary Medical Degree + Full registration with the GMC and licence to practice + At least 4 years full time post MBBCH medical experience and 2 years in Speciality applied for (or equivalent gained on part time flexible basis)
- Knowledge, Clinical expertise in speciality:
+ Demonstrable ability to use clinical knowledge and skills to provide excellent care in the acute psychiatry + Demonstrable ability to use audit and governance skills to improve patient care + Demonstrable experience of relevant patient group care + Demonstrable experience in delivering teaching to multi-disciplinary team
- Personal Skills:
+ Demonstrable willingness and ability to work flexibly within a Multidisciplinary team + Demonstrable good written and verbal communication skills with professionals, patients and carers + Demonstrable experience of clinical supervision of resident doctors
- Clinical Audit and Research:
+ Previous participation in audit and research + Willing to participate in clinical audit activities.
Benefits
- Salary: £63,696 to £102,689 a year Per annum
Additional Information
- 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.