Job overview

• This role will be supported by a £12,000 relocation allowance
• ‘Holiday of a lifetime scheme’: Consultants and SASG doctors can bank/accrue annual leave over a period of up to 5 years, to facilitate an extended period of leave. The scheme enables the opportunity for planning a ‘holiday of a lifetime’ or extended paid break

We are keen to appoint a Specialty Doctor in General Psychiatry to join the Norwich City Community Service and the Norfolk North Community Service for working age adults. The post has become vacant due to internal promotion and movement.

Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust delivers its core services to adults and older people within Care Groups that are co-terminus with the newly formed primary care networks. This post sits within the Norwich and North Norfolk Care Group which covers the Primary Care Networks within Norwich and North Norfolk.

Within the Norwich and North Norfolk Care Group you will be part of a group of 28 psychiatrists.

The community teams see people between the ages of 25 – 70.

The post holder must be registered with the GMC with a license to practice.  Approval under Section of the Mental Health Act is desirable. Applications from those wishing to work flexibly or those wishing to develop academic or special interest sessions are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

• ·        The post holder will work with their consultant and management colleagues, service users and stakeholders in the planning, development and management of services

  ·        The post holder is expected to contribute to improving quality in the service and to work with the clinical team to achieve agreed performance targets

  ·        As is expected from the holder of a senior public position the post-holder must comply fully with the Nolan Principles and the Standards of Business Conduct.

  ·        The postholder will support the management and training of junior medical staff

• Psychiatric involvement in CPA reviews and report preparation
• Use rating tools and/or outcome measures that it has been agreed the team will use
• Writing reports (e.g. For Hospital managers or Tribunals) on patients the post holder has seen and attendance at Professional and other multi-agency meetings as appropriate
• Clinical audit
• The opportunity to develop teaching skills if the candidate shows an aptitude and interest in teaching
• Cross cover for colleagues within the service on the days the post holder is at work may be required
• To provide consultancy, advice, support and intervention to the team and wider professionals
• The area of specific responsibility to be determined in conjunction with the other medical team
• To provide specialist assessment in complex cases and provide management strategies

Working for our organisation

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

Why work with us?

• Relocation allowance / removal benefit
• Protected time of 2.5 SPA per week (pro rata)
• Friendly Colleagues
• Encouragement and support for areas of special interest
• Subsidised gyms and free physio service
• We have a strong education reputation and close ties with both The University of Cambridge and The University of East Anglia
• Well established county wide teaching program
• Access and encouragement to partake in research and a well-established research network within the Trust
• Support for Quality Improvement, Audit and Service development
• Study leave budget of £600 annually.
• Forward thinking, clinically lead and innovative trust
• Flexibility can be considered for a degree of remote working