Overview
This is an excellent opportunity to join Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust as a full-time Learning Disability Psychiatrist working in the Poole Community Learning Disability Team within the wider Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) multidisciplinary team for adults with learning disabilities. You will be one of 3 psychiatrists in the BCP CLDTs.
The team provides multidisciplinary community-based services to adult patients with learning and intellectual disabilities registered with general practitioners within the area. You will provide a community psychiatry service for adult patients with learning disabilities in Poole.
The Poole population is approximately 150,000; the current psychiatry caseload is 65 adults, and the Poole CLDT caseload is 210.
Specialist epilepsy management for adults with LD is not part of the psychiatrist's role in Dorset as this is provided by the consultant Neurology-led Dorset Epilepsy Service, provided by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD).
The Intensive Support Team (IST) has a small base in Dorchester and their main base in Delphwood, Poole where the base for this post is.
Main duties of the job
The Intensive Support Team provides intensive support for individuals we support with a learning disability where the CLDT needs additional support. This service is provided in their own homes; residential or supported living; NHS acute beds, including adult mental health beds, and independent hospitals, including out-of-area placements. A key aim is to support the CLDTs to avoid unnecessary hospital admission and review those who are admitted to reduce admission length and facilitate discharge.
Dorset HealthCare also has a nurse-led Dorset-wide LD Intensive Support Team (IST) which supports the 9 Dorset CLDTs, and you will regularly attend their weekly online meetings.
You will provide LD Psychiatry for the Poole area of the BCP MDT and into the IST for Poole patients open to them. This includes new assessments and ongoing patient reviews, which will be by a mix of clinic and community visits. You will contribute to wider aspects of good clinical care such as risk assessments, management plans, appropriate referrals to colleagues, assisting with safe transfers of care when patients move CLDT patches, are admitted or discharged, relevant capacity assessments, etc. You will engage with and contribute to team meetings, multiprofessional meetings, multiagency risk management meetings, CPA meetings, discharge planning meetings and Care and Treatment Review meetings, etc.
Poole is the 2nd largest town in Dorset after Bournemouth and is a desirable and well-connected location with direct trains to London, 10 miles from Bournemouth Airport and has a harbour on the coastline near the Jurassic Coast.
About us
At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.
We do things differently here - it\'s one of the reasons the CQC rated us \'outstanding\' in 2019. It\'s also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.
Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We\'re all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We\'re an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.
Job responsibilities
For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* General medical Qualification e.g. MBBS, or equivalent and hold a Licence to Practise.
* MRCPsych or recognised equivalent, e.g. membership of a psychiatry college in another country.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Must be in possession or within 6 months of possession of a CCT in Psychiatry or on Specialist Register in Psychiatry.
* Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician approval or ability to obtain approval before starting post
* If no CCT in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability / not on Specialist Register in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability, then must demonstrate interest and ability to apply psychiatric practice to this patient group
* CCT in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
* Experience of medicine outside psychiatry e.g. general practice, medicine.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty
* Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement.
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wider medical knowledge.
* Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
* Make decisions based on evidence and experience including contribution of others.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Teaching Experience
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within the NHS or comparable service.
Dorset HealthCare Values
* Proactive, respectful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy, and positive
Management Skills
* Understand the importance of working with managers in the interest of good patient care
* Able to manage priorities
* Evidence of management/Leadership skills training
* Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff
Supervision of Junior medical Staff
* Knowledge of requirements for supervision and appraisal of junior medical staff.
* Approved educational supervisor training
* To have an understanding of own strengths and weaknesses and how these attributes affect professional functioning.
* To have an understanding of the stresses involved in being a consultant psychiatrist and how to manage these appropriately.
Clinical Governance
* An understanding of the importance of Clinical Governance in the NHS organisations and importance in patient care.
* Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation
Leadership Skills
* Understand principles of leadership and give examples of leadership in own practice.
* Able to provide clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
Research and Audit
* Experience of carrying out an audit project
* Experience or involvement in a research project and publication
* Ability to supervisor junior medical staff undertaking research projects
* Published audit project
* Ability to critically appraise published research
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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