Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Weymouth/Portland
British Medical Journal
- Portland, Dorset Weymouth, Dorset
- £99,532-131,964 per year
- Permanent
- Part-time
Job responsibilitiesFor the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- General medical Qualification e.g. MBBS, or equivalent and hold a Licence to Practise.
- MRCPsych or recognised equivalent, e.g. membership of a psychiatry college in another country.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Additional clinical qualification.
Essential
- Must be in possession or within 6 months of possession of a CCT in Psychiatry or on Specialist Register in Psychiatry.
- On Specialist Register in enter specialism Psychiatry.
- Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician approval or ability to obtain approval before starting post
- Experience of medicine outside psychiatry e.g. general practice, medicine.
Essential
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement.
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wider medical knowledge.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
- Make decisions based on evidence and experience including contribution of others.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Teaching Experience.
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within the NHS or comparable service.
Essential
- Understand the importance of working with managers in the interest of goo patient care
- Able to manage priorities.
- Evidence of management/Leadership skills training.
- Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff.
Essential
- Understand principles of leadership and give examples of leadership in own practice.
- Able to provide clinical leadership to a multi-disciplinary team.
Essential
- An understanding of the importance of Clinical Governance in the NHS organisations and importance in patient care.
- Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation
Essential
- To have an understanding of own strengths and weaknesses and how these attributes affect professional functioning
- To have an understanding of the stresses involved in being a consultant psychiatrist and how to manage these appropriately.
Essential
- Knowledge of requirements for supervision and appraisal of junior medical staff.
- Approved educational supervisor training.
Essential
- Experience of carrying out an audit project.
- Approved educational supervisor training.
Essential
- Experience of carrying out an audit project.
- Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
- Ability to supervisor junior medical staff undertaking research projects.
- Published audit project
- Ability to critically appraise published research.