Specialist

Role & responsibilities

The post holder will have at least a minimum of 2 years of Psychiatric experience and ideally 3 years. They will be required to provide the day-to-day psychiatric care for patients on Sycamore ward. This will include reviewing patients, monitoring progress, supervising the work of the 2 full time trainees on the ward and attending Multidisciplinary Team Meetings (MDMs). They will liaise with other agencies including the crisis team, community mental health teams and the Acute Trust in order to ensure patients receive high quality seamless care.

Cover for annual and study leave is usually provided vertically between each SAS doctor and the respective consultant on the same ward.

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the Trusts medical audit programme, in the training of other doctors, and medical students, and will have the option to participate in the Trusts Post-graduate medical education programme. This is approved for general professional training and if the post holder would like to develop their career further this will be actively encouraged.

ON-CALL

Under normal circumstances the post holder will not be required to undertake on-call duties. However, in exceptional situations, when all recognised avenues of providing essential on-call cover have been tried and failed, they can be required to be resident on- call. This requirement will not exceed a total of nine weekday nights and one weekend per annum. The post holder will not be expected to undertake more than one weekday or one weekend on-call in any seven-day period.

Perks and benefits :

Tier 2 visa/Skilled work visa

GMC sponsorship

Visa

Flight tickets