About the role
Salary: £113565.00 to £150569.00
We are recruiting for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to join Melksham Community CAMHS and work with a well-established multi-disciplinary team at Melksham Community Hospital in Wiltshire.
Provide clinical leadership and medical input to the team
Responsibility for those patients you see yourself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by you
With other consultants in the team, have responsibility for the clinical governance of the team as clinical leads for the team
The team will assess all emergencies referred to it within a day of referral. When necessary, this will include responsibility for Mental Health Act assessment of patients. The Consultant is not expected to make initial assessments, except in certain circumstances. The Consultant psychiatrists will work in partnership within the multidisciplinary team for the clinical management of patients in relation to the Trust Key working model. This will include risk assessment, the assessment of the needs of carers, and the development of services to meet the needs of patients and families for whom the team is responsible.
Be a clinical leaders in your team and ensure excellent systems of clinical governance so that their team provides high quality, safe care to patients. Consultants are expected to encourage a Restorative Just and Learning Culture of Learning, participate in safety huddles and investigations and participate in identifying improvements in practice where appropriate.
We have described the job in detail in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, but we would be delighted to answer any questions you might have and to find out more about you.