Description
This is an opportunity to join a well-established general adult community mental health team in Newham. The Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) is a multi-disciplinary primary care facing service providing both brief and longer-term care to service users with complex mental health needs.
The main duties of the job include:
- Providing comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and medical management of patients
- Delivering comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans
- Conducting mental state examinations
- Making clinical diagnoses
- Initiating and reviewing pharmacological treatments
- Leading multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation, and management of individual's risk
- Conducting physical health assessments
- Making referrals to other services
- Liaising with GP, community, and forensic services
- Reviewing clinical progress and care plans
- Assessing readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning
- Participating in safeguarding planning processes
- Consulting and liaising with families and carers
- Liaising with the criminal justice system, police, Courts, and probation when required
The salary for this position ranges from £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Desirable qualifications include:
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
- Formal leadership/management training
Essential skills include:
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery
The Trust offers a range of benefits, including opportunities for professional development and a supportive working environment.