Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disability Psychiatry
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 367-HPFT-MEDICAL-450
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Willowbank, Little Plumstead
- Town
- Norwich, Norfolk
- Salary
- £52,530 - £82,400 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry (Norfolk)
Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
This post is a permanent contract (0.6 WTE) and will provide support to a Community Intensive Support Service working in Norfolk.
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust along with Norfolk Community Health and Care have been commissioned to provide an intensive support service for adults with learning disabilities which
will work along specialist learning disability community services in Norfolk.
These include:
• Psychiatry
• Psychology
• Occupational therapy
• Intensive support nursing
• Speech and language therapy
These disciplines are managed through the Norfolk Intensive Support Service.
Main duties of the job
• Undertake the clinical duties associated with the care of patients, including outpatient clinics, home visits and multidisciplinary case discussions.
• Provide psychiatric expertise to the ISS
• To liaise effectively with primary care and mainstream mental health services.
• To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
• To have regular clinical supervision with the consultant psychiatrist. It is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure that this is booked.
• To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services.
Working for our organisation
The Trust vision for the future is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. We have identified eight strategic goals which we require to meet to achieve our vision. These can be divided into three categories:
Customers and the Community
To deliver high quality integrated health and social care services in accordance with recovery principles.
To be the provider of choice for service users, carers, the community and commissioners.
To work in partnership with the community to promote the wellbeing of others, whilst making a positive contribution to the environment.
Staff/Employees
To be an employer of choice where individuals are highly valued, well supported and rewarded.
To create a dynamic and flexible working environment where one is motivated and committed to providing high quality care.
To embed a culture of learning where staff develops their full potential and deliver excellent care.
Sustainability
To ensure a sustainable future through income growth and the efficient use of resources.
To be an innovative and learning organisation, that embraces new and modern approaches to health and social care.
Our vision and goals can only be achieved through a process of continuous service improvement and transformation which places the needs of service users and carers at the centre of everything we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To participate annually in a job plan review with the line manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager to ensure that the post is developed to consider changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
• To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
• To have regular clinical supervision with the consultant psychiatrist. It is the post holder’s responsibility to ensure that this is booked.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable criteria
- MRCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- An MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- A postgraduate diploma or degree in psychiatry
ELIGIBILITY
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment or eligible for full registration as a medical practitioner with the GMC.
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
- Section 12/Approved clinician approval.
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 4 years’ full time post graduate training (or it’s equivalent gained on a part time of flexible basis) at least two years of which to be within a psychiatry training programme or as fixed term Specialty Trainee within psychiatry ; or have equivalent experience and competencies. Ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psychosocial perspective and wide medical knowledge.
Desirable criteria
- Clinical experience in a range of services within Psychiatry.
- Experience of working in community settings in learning disabilities/ neurodevelopmental disorders.
ACADEMIC SKILLS LIFELONG LEARNING
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate clinical problem solving in interdisciplinary areas
- Possession of good organisational skills
- Be able to actively listen and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Holds a full valid driving license and access to a car (Unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995).
- Has participated in clinical audit.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Sophie Shardlow
- Job title
- Interim Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
The Colonnades
Beaconsfield Road
Hatfield
AL10 8YE
- Telephone
- 07971639527
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