Consultant Psychiatrist

Are you an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist with recognised therapeutic training looking for a challenging new opportunity? If so, join the team at the Aderyn to deliver high-quality clinical service to patients in locked rehabilitation.

Working 37.5 hours a week, you will work closely with the unit’s multi-disciplinary team toensure that patients receive a holistic and person-centric treatment programme based on the recovery model.

The centre of our philosophy is that this journey is all about the individual. By ensuring individualised care is delivered which is evidenced based, people can move through pathways of care as their condition improves. Families and friends are an activepart in each person’s recovery process and helping all reach the end goal of more independent living where this is possible.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Ensuring an adequate handover to colleagues including out of hours.
- Reviewing the mental state of patients as per the hospital procedure.
- Ensuring that each patient has a full physical health screen upon admission including physical examination, ECG and bloods (the hospital has some phlebotomists).
- Taking a lead with managing any physical health concerns that emerge during inpatient stay.
- Seeking collateral history from other professionals and family.
- Completing discharge letters/reports/s62 forms as required in a timely manner.
- Preparing mental health review tribunal and Hospital Managers’ hearing reports under supervision of Consultant.
- Providing oral evidence atTribunals and Hospital Managers’ hearings under the supervision of Consultant.
- Contributing to the service development by participating in Clinical Governance activities by conducting audits, research and teaching.
- Work effectively with colleagues to ensure that patients have access to appropriate medical cover at all times.
- Providing prospective cover to other specialty doctors when they are on leave.

**To be successful as a consultant psychiatrist, you’ll need**:

- Full GMC registration
- Experience working in psychiatry within multi-disciplinary teams
- To be in good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Have experience in Forensic, general adult or rehabilitation psychiatry and on the speciality register of the GMC
- To have had an appraisal/RITA within the last year
- MRCPsych
- Section 12 (2) approval
- AC status in Wales

**What you will get**
- Competitive annual salary + Benefits
- The equivalent of annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals and parking
- Wellbeing support and activities
- Career development and training
- Pension contribution
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check, holiday financing and much more.

**About your next employer**

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities& Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.