Consultant Psychiatrist - Lowdham Grange/Ranby

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Behaviours and Values

Essential criteria

• Willing to ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes.
• Willing to comply with professional codes of practice and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to psychiatry and wider mental health through engagement in health and justice clinical networks and communities of practice
• Reliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
• Approachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
• Inclusion on (or eligibility for) GMC Specialist Register
• Approved Clinical status
• Evidence of CPD, Appraisal and re-validation compliance
• Broad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
• Ability to provide compassionate, trauma informed care in secure settings

Desirable criteria

• Prison or forensic psychiatry experience
• Experience in neurodiversity / ADHD
• Teaching, leadership or service development experience

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria

• The ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
• The ability to prioritize effectively, to work in a flexible way, and to respond to change to support the needs of patients and continuity of psychiatry provision across NHFT Secured Services
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
• A growth mindset and willingness to learn and teach in a constructive manner, taking on board the ideas of others and working within a leadership structure.
• The ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
• Sound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
• The ability to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
• The ability to communicate information in a range of formats including one-to-one meetings, formal and informal meetings, written reports and electronic communication including small databases.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple sites.

Important Information

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered.

Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one.

For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours.

Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme.

If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role.

Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy.

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