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Consultant Psychiatrist - Male Learning Disability

Employer
St Andrew's Healthcare
Location
Northampton
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
10 May 2021

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Consultant Psychiatrist - Learning Disability

Location: Northampton

Full Time(part time or full time will be considered)

Salary: Very Competitive plus package and benefits

Suitable for experience Consultant or Newly Qualified (soon to complete CCT in 2021)

You can achieve more at St Andrew's Healthcare

St Andrew's Healthcare is a charity with an excellent and well-deserved reputation as a provider of specialist mental healthcare. We transform the lives of people with the greatest mental health needs. Throughout our 180 year history we have helped some of society's most vulnerable people and today we proudly continue to build world-class mental healthcare services. Our commitment to holistic care, safety, recovery and innovative therapies and treatment makes St Andrew's the perfect place to take your career to a new level.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew's CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day

The Service & Role

The Learning Disability Servicehas an exciting opportunity to develop and strengthen your experience working with patients in our secure care settings. These are challenging environments, with excellent multidisciplinary teams, and a forward-thinking and holistic approach is taken to patient care and treatment in the Service.

The post-holders will be able to undertake non-clinical activities of interest e.g. research, teaching, governance and management - in an innovative way, and we actively encourage you to be a leader nationally in mental health and influence the direction of services in order for them to be the best for our patients. The formation of our services has increased the autonomy of services and enabled us to transform the care and treatment we deliver to patients.

The Role

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the management of patients with complex mental disorders and neurodevelopmental needs. You will be able to promote innovation and improvement of services and there will also be a strong research and teaching element to the role.

You will lead a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the management of patients with often complex learning disabilities.You will be able to promote innovation and improvement of services, with scope to develop your specialist interests and grow your remit and responsibilities. We will actively encourage you to be a leader nationally in mental health and influence the future direction of services.

We are looking for an individual who wants a role where they have the autonomy to make decisions that will help improve patient care and outcomes and has a passion about transforming care. Someone who wants to join an organisation and be a leader of a team who also shares this passion.

Development

We are extremely proud to empower the careers of our medical professionals, and our Executive Medical Director and the majority of our Clinical Directors have grown and developed into their current roles within the Charity

We also support a number of our Consultant Psychiatrists through an Executive MBA programme at some of the most prestigious business schools in the country. There are also opportunities to attend our regular internal CPD events and for you to develop a medico-legal out-patient practice as part of the St Andrew's Consultancy Service.

The Person

The successful candidate will lead a full MDT and help shape services further through strategic decision-making and improvement projects whilst having support from a team of Junior Doctors and MDT specialists. You will also be able to undertake research projects as part of St Andrew's commitment to innovation and world-class care.

You will have MRCPsych or equivalent, a CCT in Learning Disability, Forensic Psychiatry or General Adult Psychiatry.

Reward
The post attracts a competitive salary with travel allowance (with the option of additional remuneration for work undertaken via the St Andrew's Consultancy service), sickness policy on par with NHS, 41 days annual leave including bank holidays, car lease scheme, free parking, cycle to work scheme, ongoing CPDand much more...

Interested?

For further details or to have an informal conversation around the role and service please contact or James Farrelly 01604 616624 or [email protected]

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