Doctor Old Age Psychiatry job description [Speciality Doctor]

MAIN DUTIES OF THE POST

Key Responsibilities

• To assess and treat outpatients in clinics including specialist memory clinics. There will be four outpatient clinics per week with one new patient and four follow-up patients per clinic.

• To participate in CPA meetings for inpatients and to hold CPA meetings for outpatients.

• To visit patients in their own homes and in nursing and residential homes

 • To hold ward rounds and inpatient CPA meetings in the absence of the Consultant during annual or study leave of the consultant and to provide a first point of contact for medical advice for the community teams in such consultant absences.

• To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.

• Occasionally prepare Mental Health Act Tribunal reports and participate in Mental Health Act Tribunal meetings. This is closely supervised by the consultant. The post holder is encouraged to seek Section 12 approval but this is not a requirement of the post.

Other Opportunities

• Presentation at the weekly Journal Club and case conferences

• There is one hour consultant supervision available per week.

• Participation in audit/research.

Clinical Governance

The post holder is expected to undertake continuing professional development, to keep themselves informed of important developments within the field of medicine and psychiatry in particular. The post holder will take part in audit, evidence based medicine Journal clubs and appraisals.

The post holder is entitled to study leave in accordance with the Medical and Dental Terms and Conditions of Service. The post holder will be entitled to 30 days study leave over 3 years and study leave will be supported by the supervising consultant and liable to approval by the Medical Director of the Trust.

On call responsibilities

There are no out of hours on call responsibilities and there are no day time rota commitments currently. A suitably qualified candidate may be able to enter into a newly constituted county wide rota for MHA work which would be separately remunerated.

Cover arrangements

The post holder will provide first point of contact in the Consultants absence with consultant supervision from one of the covering consultants.

It is envisaged the post holder will cross cover with the other staff-grade doctor. In the absence of either consultant they will provide the first point of contact within the teams for medical issues and will lead on inpatient care in Dr Bown’s absence.

Clinical Audit
The Trust expects that audit will be part of the clinical process. A Trust-wide audit policy supported by local audit committees makes provision for regular audit reviews. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in and support this process.