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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands. We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in peoples homes and in over 200 hospitals, health centres and clinics. We provide services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.
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Trust Grade Doctor
Closed for applications on: 8-Feb-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Feb-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Greenfields
- Address
- 30 Brookfield road
- Town
- Kings Norton
- Postcode
- B30 3QY
- Major / Minor Region
- Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
Salary
- Salary
- £36,616 per annum or salary scale MT02 £42.008 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: (Equivalent to FY1 or FY2))
Specialty
- Main area
- Psychiatry
Job overview
Please note, this is an internal vacancy and only employees of Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), Trust Bank and agency staff engaged with BCHC are eligible to apply at this time.
**This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.**
In Birmingham, we have about 24,000 people who have a learning disability. In our fast-paced day-to-day lives, many of them face challenges with daily living and being an active member in society. At Learning Disabilities, we are looking for a Trust Grade Doctor to partner with us and make a difference for our patients.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands. We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in people’s homes and in over 300 hospitals, health centres and clinics. We provide services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.
The post holder will work with integrated multidisciplinary teams to meet the specialist healthcare needs of the population of approximately 1.1 million.
As a service, our community focus coupled with expansion of established community forensic and intensive support teams leave us well placed to meet the challenges arising from the Transforming Care agenda. We welcome applications from clinical leaders who are motivated to support the multidisciplinary team in the delivery of excellent and innovative care for the population that we serve. The Trust has recently launched Leadership programmes to support employees to realise their potential.
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Main Duties and Responsibilities
· To provide clinical care to patients through out-patient clinics, domiciliary visits and MDT reviews. The main responsibilities to include undertaking psychiatric assessments, arranging appropriate investigations, supporting the implementation of treatment plans in collaboration with the MDT.
· To carry out a full range of mental state examinations, medical assessment and treatment duties under the supervising Consultant.
· Completing the Medication reviews and writing of prescriptions under supervision of the supervising consultant
· Attending Weekly locality MDT meetings
· Document assessments and formulate clear treatment plans. Clear documentation as per Trust RIO (electronic record) standards and GMC guidelines for all work, including new referrals and discharge summaries as appropriate
· Provide pharmacological and psychological interventions as appropriate in keeping with the protocols of the service and under supervision from the Consultant Psychiatrist.
· Liaison with carers, family members, GPs or Community Teams
· The completion of certain mandatory assessments such as the HoNoS – LD
· To provide medical cover psychiatric emergencies during LD core working hours.
· You will be expected to offer advice and support to a Physician Associate
Working for our organisation
Be Part of Our Team...
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Management and Leadership Responsibilities
· To participate in Clinical Audit.
· To participate in educational activities appropriate to the post holder's career intentions.
· Develop and empower all members of the multidisciplinary team to perform to high standards and innovate.
· Support members of the multidisciplinary team to develop knowledge and skills that promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery.
· Contribute to the development of a culture that ensure that the standards of Improving Working Lives and Investors in People are achieved and maintained for all staff and that staff’s perception about their working lives are measured and improvements made.
General
· To undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
· To minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible, including recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel. Where the role includes the ordering and use of supplies or equipment the post holder will consider the environmental impact of purchases.
For detailed information regarding the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuous personal and professional development
- Full registration to the General Medical Council
- Shall have completed at least 3 years full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis)
- Possesses and maintain professional registration & retain a current licence to practice.
Essential
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working with people with learning disabilities within an NHS setting
Desirable criteria
- • Commitments to multidisciplinary working
- • Understanding of issues of learning disability
- • Good communication and organisational skills
Guiidance
Essential criteria
- • Positive, energetic, enthusiastic in outlook and able to set a good example
- • Understanding of service planning and development
- • Interest in developing the service
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Robert Atambo
- Job title
- Divisional Group Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07764967243
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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