The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Beverley General Adult Community Mental Health Team.

The service covers Beverley and Market Weighton, a generally affluent area with pockets of deprivation. It isdelivered by a multi-disciplinary team comprising a range of professional disciplines including community psychiatric nurses, social workers, care officers, occupational therapists, healthcare support workers, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists integrated, in partnership with the local authority.

Main duties of the job

The team accepts approximately 17 referrals per month and currently carries a caseload of approximately 208. The post holder will carry no responsibility for inpatients.

Together with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, you will offer medical leadership, assessment and management of patients on the community caseload and contribute to the on call rota for the wider General Adult Service.

About us

As a Teaching Trust we provide excellent opportunities for professional development, and we are a leading Trust in mental health research. We work closely with our teaching partners of Hull York Medical School and Health Education England to offer an excellent training package that has seen us rated in the Top 5 of the GMC's national training survey 2016.

You will join our team of over 2,700 colleagues that work together to change lives. We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to employee development.

Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire is a great place to live and offers some of the most competitive house prices in the country with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers.

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing, including:

• Excellent relocation package
• Free on-site parking
• Buy and sell annual leave
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Extra day off on completion of mandatory training and receiving
• flu vaccination
• Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

Find out more about what makes our Trust 'Humbelievable' at join.humber.nhs.uk

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a consultant working in the Beverley Community Team, you will have responsibility for the provision of safe and effective care and treatment. You will share the vision of integrated and multi-disciplinary working and actively engage in the development of the service through research and support.

The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.

The ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport is essential.

Please read our attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on our exciting role available.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

Desirable

• MRCPsych
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management

Eligibility

Essential

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment (the Trust will appoint a section12(2) to provide this role in the sector during the transition)
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable

• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others

Academic skills and lifelong learning

Essential

• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes

Desirable

• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Transport

Essential

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

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