West Sussex / United Kingdom / Code: EPJ02199
Apply for this jobConsultant Psychiatrist - Assessment and Treatment Team
Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary £84,559 - £114,003 per annum
Location Littlehampton
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Clients Assessment and Treatment service in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
Please note this post attracts a Golden Hello payment of up to £5,000 as well as a Relocation Package of up to £8000.
We are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail. There is also free on-site parking which will be accessible to the successful post holder.
This role can also support any interest in research, development, medical education or special interests that you may have. We strongly believe in creating roles that provide a service but also give you the opportunity to develop your own areas of special interest.
Main duties of the jobThe role of the post holder in the ATS team will be to see new assessments, providing detailed assessments, formulation and risk assessments, to develop management plans and review these in an outpatient setting.
The post holder will be expected to review patients already known to the ATS as required, during their journey through the ATS system. The post holder will direct these patient’s treatment.
The post holder will liaise with local primary care services and provide advice and guidance. They will provide supervision of junior medical staff and provide advice to other members of the team including the duty worker. They will provide senior clinical leadership to the ATS.
The post holder will be expected to provide medical leadership in the development of the team and wider working age services, in line with the CDS and Trust goals, in order to provide high quality mental health care for patients.
Working for our organisationOur Clients Trust is a large NHS organisation that offers clinical and social care services to children, young people, adults and older adults, with emotional and mental health problems or learning disabilities.
Services are provided to the people of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex with Children & Young People’s Services provided across Sussex and Hampshire.
The Trust benefits from a thriving psychiatry training scheme where Health Education Kent, Surrey and Sussex provide foundation, GP, core and higher trainees.
We work closely with Brighton and Sussex Medical School; a partnership between the Universities of Brighton and Sussex. In 2015 we became a member of the Association of UK University Hospitals, the representative body for university hospitals with major teaching and research interests across the UK and internationally.
Person specification Essential and desirable Essential criteria