Job overview
This Specialty Doctor post in Adult Psychiatry is located in the Cambridge area of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will work with the Consultant Psychiatrist primarily to provide medical input to the patients on Mulberry.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:-
- Assess newly admitted patients for their physical and mental health needs including risk.
- Take active steps to address the identified needs in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team.
- Liaise with other health professionals and other voluntary and third sector agencies.
- Work with MDT in discharge planning.
- Attend team meetings and routine clinical handovers.
- Guide and support other junior doctors in day to day functioning of the unit and distribution of
workload.
- Actively participate in local and trust wide educational activities. The services regularly have
medical student attachments and involvement in teaching is encouraged.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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