Associate Specialist

Do you want to work in a friendly, committed and established service where your knowledge, experience and skills will be valued? Join Ballington House as an Associate Specialist where you will provide care for women with personality disorders and mentalillness in an established and well-run service.

You will focus on assessing, managing and supporting individuals in hospital which offers rehabilitation and for women with complex difficulties, with the aim of helping them to return to community living.

Working alongside a Consultant Psychiatrists and a wider multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to deliver person-centred care, treatment and support to some of the most vulnerable people in society.

You will be able to join a dynamic peer group with your Consultant colleagues within the region and will work with a Consultant supervisor.You will also be supported to join the Psychiatrist Mentorship Scheme to support your individual and career developmentif you wish.

There is an on-call element to this role and the post holder will be part of a first tier on call rota. There are long established Consultant on call arrangements in place to support this.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Assessments and admissions of new patients to the service.
- Obtaining collateral histories from other professionals and family.
- Formulating a diagnosis in conjunction with the MDT.
- Completing physical health assessments and working closely with our GP’s and Physical Health Nurse to improve the physical wellbeing of patients
- Completing discharge letters/reports/ SOAD forms.
- Support the adequate working of the Care Programme Approach and Care and treatment plans for service users.
- Work closely with our Pharmacist to ensure safe, effective, evidence-based prescribing.
- Liaise with external professionals ad work collaboratively with commissioners and external care teams to aid seamless transitions to the community.
- Contributing to the service development by participating in Clinical Governance activities, quality initiatives, audits, research and teaching.
- Under the supervision of the Consultant, provide leadership of the clinical team and preparing First-tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers' hearing reports.

**As an Associate Specialist, you will have**:

- Full GMC Registration
- Experience in working in psychiatry within multi-disciplinary teams
- To be in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- To have had an Appraisal/RITA within the last year
- At least 3 years’ experience in Psychiatry
- Experience working as a doctor within a similar environment

**What you will get**