Client Name: Central & NW London NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Adult Psychiatry Consultant
Shifts: June 2024 - January 2025
Location: Hillingdon Hospital
Benefits:
1. Over 5,000 new job requests received every week.
2. Approved supplier on every NHS medical locum framework
3. Priority access and first sight of large number of jobs across multiple NHS trusts/health boards
4. Competitive pay rates
5. Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available
6. A dedicated point of contact
7. Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
8. Lucrative referral scheme
9. Revalidation support
10. 24/7/365 service - we are available when you need us
11. 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 Central & NW London NHS Foundation Trust. 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 Hillingdon 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.
The Hillingdon 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.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as an Adult Psychiatry Consultant, you will have:
12. Quick thinking abilities
13. Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
14. Excellent attention to detail
15. A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
16. Excellent timekeeping
17. A pro-active approach to research and academia
18. Empathy and understanding
19. A flexible attitude
20. A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
21. Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an Adult Psychiatry Consultant with Hillingdon Hospital you will:
22. Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy or refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or to follow up patients for medication reviews.
23. Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
24. Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
25. Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
26. Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
27. Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
28. Recognise, review, and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
29. Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
30. Help teach and train other junior doctors and medical students and other multidisciplinary team members.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
31. MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
32. 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
A business with a future
If you are ready to take up a consultancy position in a hospital that prides itself on the opportunities provided to staff and the care provided to patients, apply today, and enjoy access to hundreds of shifts, a dedicated Placement Officer and revalidation support.