Associate Specialist

**Introduction**:
Do you want to work in a friendly, committed, and established service where your knowledge, experience and skills will be valued? Join The Chimneys as an Associate Specialist where you will provide a comprehensive medical support across a women’ personality disorder and Mental Illness service under the direction of the responsible clinician.

In this role you will provide clinical assessment, review and evaluation of people under the care and treatment of the hospital ensuring that all treatment plans are fully adhered to. You will also take a specific focus on physical health, food and fluids and risk management across the ward working closely with the ward manager, consultant and wider MDT.

You will be working alongside a full time Responsible Clinician, as well as the wider MDT of which they form an integral part. There is a regular multi-disciplinary Team meeting daily and weekly so that care and treatment is adequately planned. The team has dedicated administrative support which is based within the hospital.

Elysium Healthcare brings together a unique approach to the delivery of care where the patient is embedded in the heart of all aspects of hospital life.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Clinical assessment, formulation and treatment
- Ensuring an adequate handover to colleagues including out of hours when on call.
- Seeking collateral history from other professionals and family.
- Completing discharge letters/reports/s62 forms as required in a timely manner.
- Preparing First-tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers' hearing reports under the supervision of Consultant.
- Depending on your experience, providing oral evidence at First-tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers' hearings under the supervision of the 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
- There will be a on-call rota you will be asked to be part of.

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

- Full GMC registration
- AC approved (if associate specialist
- Experience 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 similar environment
- MRCPsych (desirable)
- Section 12 (2) approval (desirable)
- AC status (desirable)
- A minimum of 4 years in the registrar or staff grade and/or specialty doctor grade and/or in the clinical and/or senior clinical medical officer grades.
- A minimum of 10 years medical work (either a continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification which is (or would at the time have been) acceptable by the GMC for full, limited or temporary (but not provisional) registration.
- Sound medical skills and knowledge.
- Understanding of the importance of excellent team working relationships and ability to put this into practice.

**What you will get**
- Competitive annual salary + Benefits
- Medical indemnity cover
- The equivalent of 30 days of annual leave - plus your birthday off
- Free meals
- 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 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.