Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry - Beech Ward

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, The Park, City of Nottingham

Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry - Beech Ward

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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, The Park, City of Nottingham

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 14 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 098c5e8ed9204ea69d809348281f03d8

Full Job Description

This post will primarily provide daily cover for inpatients on Beech Ward at Sherwood Oaks. Due to the recent reconfiguration of the Trust, the post holder will also have responsibility for patients admitted from out of primary area. These will mostly come from the Nottingham City area. These admissions are divided up between other consultants on the unit with an established formula. The medical input to 70 inpatient beds is divided between 4 consultants with inpatient responsibilities on with maximum number of up to 9 patients under one consultant at any one time. The postholder will have clinical responsibility for the 17 female patients on the ward in an acute setting. They will provide senior medical input for the ir mental health, working closely with the multidisciplinary team. They will have RC responsibility for those patients detained under the MHA.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!