Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- Specialist Psychiatrist
- Contract
- Permanent: Substantive
- Hours
- 8 sessions per week (Part time, 8 PA per week)
- Job ref
- 342-SP200-BSW-VN
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hillview Lodge
- Town
- Bath
- Salary
- £100,870 - £111,441 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Psychiatrist - Intensive Services - Bath
Specialist Psychiatrist
Job overview
We are seeking a Specialist Grade Doctor to join the Intensive Service. This is a newly created post to work alongside the part time Consultant within the team.
Based at Hillview Lodge, the Specialist Grade doctor will play a key role in the multi-disciplinary Team providing advice and assessment of patients under the Intensive service, liaising and working closely with the Inpatient Unit to assist with discharge planning, as well as working in partnership with other primary and secondary care services.
Further details can be found in the accompanying job description.
Main duties of the job
As the Specialist Doctor on the ward you will provide clinical leadership and consultation for Intensive service staff.
-actively participate in team and personal caseload management
-Assess and treat patients as requested by Staff working closely with GPs in ensuring continuity of care between Primary and secondary sectors
-Review patients on the Intensive Service caseload
-deliver direct interventions to service users at a level of intensity according to need including those service users who require an assertive approach who are difficult to engage. This will include on-going assessment, diagnoses (including review and clarification) and treatment of mental and physical health needs.
-Regular attendance twice daily Team Meetings.
-To hold CPA meetings for outpatients.
-To visit patients in their own place of residence
-To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
-To liaise with the community and Inpatient services as appropriate to facilitate the smooth handover of patients between services.
-To participate in Mental Health Assessment for patients opened to the Intensive Service
-To supervise and support resident doctors on placement within the Intensive Service team
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Additional Clinical Qualification
Eligibilty
Essential criteria
- Eligible for full registration with the GMC at the time of confirmation of appointment
- Completed a minimum of 12 years medical work (either continuous period or in aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification
- A minimum of six years should have been in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades. Equivalent years’ experience in a relevant specialty from other medical grades including overseas will also be accepted.
- Section 12 Approval (or within 6 months of appointment) if not have Approved Clinician (AC) status/approval and be on the AC register
Professional Values and Behaviours, Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Practises with the professional values and behaviours expected of all doctors as set out in GMC Good Medical Practice and the Generic Professional Capabilities Framework
- Demonstrates the underpinning subject-specific competences i.e. knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope.
- Critically reflects on own competence, understands own limits, and seeks help when required.
- Clinically evaluates and manages a patient, formulating a prioritised differential diagnosis, initiating an appropriate management plan, and reviewing and adjusting this depending on the outcomes of treatment.
- Manages the difficulties of dealing with complexity and uncertainty in the care of patients; employing expertise and clinical decision-making skills of a senior and independent/ autonomous practitioner. (All senior doctors/dentists (including consultants and GPs) work independently/autonomously to a level of defined competencies, as agreed within local clinical governance frameworks.)
- Awareness of legal responsibilities relevant to the role, such as around mental capacity and deprivation of liberty; data protection; equality and diversity. Understanding and utilisation of the legal framework provided by both the MHA 1983 and the MCA 2005
Leadership and Team working
Essential criteria
- Awareness of their leadership responsibilities as a clinician and demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour; managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex or unpredictable and seeking to build collaboration with, and confidence in, others.
- Develops effective relationships across teams and contributes to work and success of these teams – promotes and participates in both multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
- Critically reflects on decision-making processes and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- Critically appraises performance of self, colleagues or peers and systems to enhance performance and support development.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques so can adapt leadership behaviours to improve engagement and outcomes – appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
- Develops practice in response to changing population health need, engaging in horizon scanning for future developments.
Research and Scholarship
Essential criteria
- Keeps up-to-date with current research and best practice in the individual’s specific area of practice, through appropriate continuing professional development activities and their own independent study and reflection.
- Locates and uses clinical guidelines appropriately. Communicates and interprets research evidence in a meaningful way for patients to support shared decision-making.
Desirable criteria
- Works towards identifying the need for further research to strengthen the evidence base or where there are gaps in knowledge, networking with teams within and outside the organisation.
- Critically appraises and understands the relevance of the literature, conducting literature searches and reviews; disseminates best practice including from quality improvement projects.
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Critically assesses own learning needs and ensures a personal development plan reflects both clinical practice and the relevant generic capabilities to lead and develop services.
- Promotes and participates in individual and team learning; supporting the educational needs of individuals and teams for uni-professional, multidisciplinary and interprofessional learning.
- Can act as a role model, educator, supervisor.
- Understands how to raise concerns about the behaviour or performance of any learner who is under their clinical supervision (leadership). Takes part in patient education
Desirable criteria
- PGCME or equivalent/aspiration to attain a postgraduate teaching qualification
- Aspiration to work towards consultant grade via Portfolio Pathway accreditation route
- A coach or mentor for medical and non-medical practitioners
- Teaching of undergraduate students
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Essential criteria
- Evaluates and audits own and others’ clinical practice and acts on the findings.
- Implements quality improvement methods and repeats quality improvement cycles to refine practice; designing projects and evaluating their impact.
- Takes prompt action where there is an issue with the safety or quality of patient care, raises and escalates concerns, through clinical governance systems, where necessary.
- Collaborates with multidisciplinary and interprofessional teams to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings, with respect for and recognition of the roles of other health professionals.
Desirable criteria
- Leads new practice and service redesign in response to feedback, evaluation and need, promoting best practice.
- Critically appraises and synthesises the outcomes of audit, inquiries, critical incidents or complaints and implements appropriate changes.
- Applies basic human factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisation and system levels.
- Engages with relevant stakeholders to develop and implement robust governance systems and systematic documentation processes.
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups
Essential criteria
- Recognises and takes responsibility for safeguarding children, young people and adults, using appropriate systems for identifying, sharing information, recording and raising concerns, obtaining advice and taking action.
- Applies appropriate equality and diversity legislation, including disability discrimination requirements, in the context of patient care.
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Viviane Ngwompo
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01225 371480
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