# Specialty Doctor

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £63,696 to £102,689 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

West London NHS Trust is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Specialty Doctor to join the Ealing crisis and home treatment team. The post-holder will provide medical input into the multidisciplinary team delivering crisis assessment and home treatment.

**Main Duties:**

- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments including risk formulation and devise personalised risk management plans

- Develop and review care plans within a multidisciplinary framework

- Support admission avoidance by providing intensive community-based interventions

- Participate in gatekeeping assessments for community-based patients

- Facilitate early discharge from inpatient units through collaborative working

- Undertake Mental Health Act assessments where necessary

- Prescribe and monitor response to psychotropic medication

- Contribute to urgent reviews and same-day assessments

- Ensure high-quality clinical documentation and record keeping

- Contribute to safeguarding assessments and processes

- Participate in daily multidisciplinary handovers and reviews

**Requirements:**

- Primary Medical Degree

- Full registration with licence to practice

- Minimum four years postgraduate medical experience

- At least three years' experience in psychiatry

- MRCPsych or equivalent psychiatric experience and training

- Demonstrable ability to assess and manage psychiatric emergencies

- Excellent communication skills

- Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams

**Benefits:**

- Salary: £63,696 to £102,689 a year

- Fixed term contract for 6 months

- Part-time working pattern

## Skills

### Required
- psychiatric assessments
- risk formulation
- multidisciplinary teamwork
- Mental Health Act assessments
- prescribing psychotropic medication

### Nice to have
- Section 12(2) approval
- additional postgraduate qualification
- clinical supervision of resident doctors
- research experience

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