Detailed job description
and main 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
Essential criteria
1. General medical Qualification e.g. MBBS, or equivalent and hold a Licence to Practise
2. MRCPsych or recognised equivalent, e.g. membership of a psychiatry college in another country.
Desirable criteria
3. MRCPsych or recognised equivalent, e.g. membership of a psychiatry college in another country.
4. Additional clinical qualification
Eligibility
Essential criteria
5. Must be in possession or within 6 months of possession of a CCT in Older Adult Psychiatry or on Specialist Register in Psychiatry.
6. On Specialist Register in Older Adult Psychiatry
7. Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician approval or ability to obtain approval before starting post
Desirable criteria
8. Experience of medicine outside psychiatry e.g. general practice, medicine.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
9. Excellent knowledge in specialty
10. Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement.
11. Excellent clinical skills using bio-psychosocial perspective and wider medical knowledge.
12. Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
13. Make decisions based on evidence and experience including contribution of others
14. Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Desirable criteria
15. Teaching Experience
16. Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within the NHS or comparable service.
Dorset HealthCare Values
Essential criteria
17. Proactive, respectful, supportive, reliable and trustworthy, and positive
Management Skills
Essential criteria
18. Understand the importance of working with managers in the interest of goo patient care
19. Able to manage priorities
20. Evidence of management/Leadership skills training
Desirable criteria
21. Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff
Leadership Skills
Essential criteria
22. Understand principles of leadership and give examples of leadership in own practice.
23. Able to provide clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
Clinical Governance
Essential criteria
24. An understanding of the importance of Clinical Governance in the NHS organisations and importance in patient care.
25. Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation
Self Awareness
Essential criteria
26. To have an understanding of own strengths and weaknesses and how these attributes affect professional functioning
27. To have an understanding of the stresses involved in being a consultant psychiatrist and how to manage these appropriately
Supervision of Junior medical Staff
Essential criteria
28. Knowledge of requirements for supervision and appraisal of junior medical staff.
29. Approved educational supervisor training
Research and Audit
Essential criteria
30. Experience of carrying out an audit project
31. Experience or involvement in a research project and publication
32. Ability to supervisor junior medical staff undertaking research projects
Desirable criteria
33. Published audit project
34. Ability to critically appraise published research