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Job Reference: ebd954a3f91e
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Posted: 25.06.2025
Expiry Date: 09.08.2025
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Job Description: Client Name: Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Adult Psychiatry Consultant
Shifts: Full time
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Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available
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Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
As a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatry services at St Austell Hospital. Here you have extensive opportunities to develop good collaborative therapeutic alliances with patients and patients' families while being a pillar of clinical and educational support for junior doctors.
Working flexible shifts at St Austell Hospital, you will enjoy close working relationships with your fellow healthcare professionals. Together you will seek to establish a common understanding of the problems the patient is experiencing, taking a lead role in establishing the strategic management plan for a patient, utilising your therapeutic skills to develop a constructive pathway to recovery.
St Austell Hospital takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously with an emphasis on ensuring excellence across the domains which matter the most to the wellbeing of patients. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical facilities in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism, research, and academia throughout your consultancy.
Development and opportunities
As a Consultant, you will be dedicated to imparting complex knowledge and championing skill enhancement throughout the entire hospital. Leading by example, you will encourage uptake for the wide range of development and support packages available, supporting and mentoring your fellow healthcare professionals in their continuous professional development.
Approximately 25% of the population suffers from a mental health problem in any one year, yet stigma and discrimination are still significant issues for those who use mental health services. In your role as a Consultant Adult Psychiatrist, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how the provision of critical psychiatry services can transform lives, to anticipate developments in policy or practice and encourage evolution in service delivery.
In addition to your qualifications, as an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will have:
Quick thinking abilities
Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
Excellent attention to detail
A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
A pro-active approach to research and academia
Empathy and understanding
A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust you will:
Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to follow up patients for medication reviews.
Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other multidisciplinary team members.
Development and opportunities
If you are looking for a consultancy role within a Trust that continuously strives to achieve excellence, apply today and be a critical part of their renowned psychiatry services provision.
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