Locum Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
An exciting job opportunity to work with NHS Lanarkshire’s Community Perinatal Mental Health Team (CPMHT), on a locum basis. The Community Perinatal Mental Health Team (CPMHT) is a Lanarkshire-wide community based service that enables multi-disciplinary professionals to provide an excellent standard of care for women of childbearing age with complex or severe mental health problems, and their families, in order that they experience positive pregnancies with healthy children. The service works closely with other services including specialist midwives in perinatal mental health, obstetric colleagues, family nurse partnership, health visiting and primary care and admits patients to the West of Scotland Regional Mother and Baby Unit. There are good working relationships with allied services including maternity and neonatal psychological services and infant mental health services. The post holder will be required to show leadership, and flexibility to work in a variety of community settings and contribute to maintaining and developing the service. The post holder will need to display an ability to apply a full range of pharmacological, psychological, skills and to demonstrate knowledge of interventions and physical treatment skills, good communication and team working skills.
Both the North and South HSCPs have now been granted university status and have close links with Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).
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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr R Taylor on 01698 754435.
For any application queries, please contact Nicole Hetherington, Senior HR Assistant 01698754350 or via medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
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Interview Date: TBC