Job overview

The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor to join the friendly and experienced South Wiltshire Dementia Service. This is an established post which has become vacant due to the current incumbent leaving. It is a great opportunity to gain a great deal of experience and knowledge working within an established multi-disciplinary team. Working with a team who believe in collaborative work and have the patient at the centre of their practise. The service provides a secondary assessment facility and a monitoring service for those who require maintenance prescribing on memory enhancers that cannot be prescribed within primary care. This post will provide support and clinical assistance to the Consultant Psychiatrist concerning the care of patients. Salisbury has a weekly Academic programme. In addition, there is a monthly PDP group and Peer Supervision. CPD activities are supported. The post offers study leave arrangements as well as good research, service development and leadership opportunities. The post-holder will be well supported by Consultant Psychiatrist, Team Manager and Community Services Manager.

Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.

Main duties of the job

The prime responsibility of the post-holder is to provide support and clinical assistance to the Consultant Psychiatrist concerning the care of patients.  To assess and treat service users in the community and in a clinic.  The Specialty Doctor will support the Consultant Psychiatrists in complex case management.  To arrange and participate in CPA meetings for service users.  Undertake urgent and routine psychiatric assessments when necessary  Write up all their notes using the Trusts Electronic Record system RIO which also records time and date of entry. The post holder is personally responsible for entering their notes onto the system themselves.  Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plans  To liaise with GPs regarding a service users medical monitoring results  To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable; to provide advice and consultation to members of the multi-disciplinary teams and regularly attend weekly MDT meetings

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.

Please note that Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is not currently a sponsor under the GMC Sponsorship Scheme. 

As a result, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require GMC sponsorship