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Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
About
The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership took its present form in April 2001 in order to provide specialist mental health services to people across Avon and Wiltshire.
Our multi-professional teams include some people who you might expect:
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Nurses
Healthcare assistants
However they also include many other people with skills, knowledge and experience to contribute to your individual care and treatment:
Social workers
Mental health workers
Occupational therapists
Arts therapists
Dietitians
Physiotherapists
Psychotherapists
Service-user involvement workers
Community development workers
A carer's caseworker
Medical secretaries
And many more!
Behind the scenes our teams are supported by housekeeping teams, security staff, maintenance teams, personnel staff, recruitment specialist to ensure that we have the right people to address your needs, a childcare co-ordinator, an estates team to make sure our facilities are of a high quality, catering teams, accounting and finance teams, training specialists, clinical governance specialists to make sure that our working practices are the best they can be, a pharmacist, IT professionals, a press and communications team, researchers and more.
The hospitals covered by the Trust include:
Green Lane Hospital, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 5DS
Tel: 01380 731200 Beds 60
Hillview Lodge, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath, Somerset, BA1 3NG
Tel: 01225 428331 Beds 57
St Martins Hospital, Midford Road, Bath, Somerset, BA2 5RP
Tel: 01225 832383 Beds 46
Charter House, Seymour Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire BA14 8LS
Tel: 01225 774561 Beds 26
Blackberry Hill Hospital, Manor Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 2EW. Tel: 0117 965 6061
Long Fox Unit, Weston General Hospital, Weston Super Mere, Avon BS23 4TQ. Tel: 01934 647084
Donal Early House, Mental Health Unit, Southmead Hospital, Bristol BS10 5NB. Tel: 0117 959 5821
Consultant Psychiatrist - Bristol Acute Inpatient Services
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2023 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Nov-2023 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oakwood Ward, Southmead Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Postcode
- BS10 5NB
- Major / Minor Region
- Somerset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Consultant Psychiatrist)
Specialty
- Main area
- General Adult Psychiatry
Job overview
We are looking for a Consultant to provide leadership to Oakwood Ward, a dynamic acute unit with 23 beds, based at Southmead Hospital, Bristol.
The ward embraces the challenges of Acute Psychiatry. It is a psychologically informed environment working in a truly multi-disciplinary model. The team are motivated to work on ways to improve the quality of the service, developing and carrying out quality improvement projects; strive to offer the best possible care and enabling patients and carers to pursue recovery.
The ward has RCPsych Accreditation and good CQC feedback.
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You will lead on daily ward reviews providing visible and accessible support to the SAS doctor, junior doctor and nursing team.
This post is evolving new ways of working to include systems for consultant time to be focused on those patients that need senior medical input so that decision-making, treatment and discharge planning, and liaison with the Intensive (Crisis) team happens promptly. To support this, the consultant will not have responsibilities outside of this team, other than attending some CPD activities or interface meetings with other teams.
You will be encouraged and supported to be involved in service leadership and management and to develop an area of special clinical interest in line with service needs.
We offer one of the most competitive and flexible benefits packages.
Bristol is a great place to live and work and has easy travel routes across the country via the M4 and M5, There are two principal railway stations in Bristol and an airport.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Higher Degree e.g MD,PHD,Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
- MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of assessing and treating patients in an inpatient setting.
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
- Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in Adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.
- Understand principles of teaching.
Research and Audit
Essential criteria
- Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
- Experience of carrying out an audit project.
Management
Essential criteria
- Evidence of management/leadership skills training.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Phillip Charles
- Job title
- Medical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07803441404
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