16 Oct
Medacs
Birmingham
Client Name: Birmingham And Solihull MH NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor
Location: Birmingham
Benefits:
- Over 5,000 new job requests received every week. Approved supplier on every NHS medical locum framework
- Priority access and first sight of large number of jobs across multiple NHS trusts/health boards
- Competitive pay rates
- Flexibility on jobs/shifts; long term jobs and short ad hoc shifts available
- A dedicated point of contact
- Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
- Lucrative referral scheme
- Revalidation support
- 24/7/365 service - we are available when you need us
- Access to The Support Hub - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
This much-anticipated opportunity within Birmingham And Solihull MH NHS Foundation Trust, promises to provide the right candidate with unrivalled career development opportunities and support for clinical, holistic, and therapeutic practice, academia, and research.
As an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, your skills, knowledge, and experience are critical to the successful provision of psychiatric services for older patients or those with similar needs at Maple Leaf Centre Birmingham. Here you have extensive scope to provide specialised and holistic assessment, treatment, and continuing care for older patients with dementia, memory problems, depression and a spectrum of psychiatric illnesses including delirium, schizophrenia, and personality disorders.
Working flexible shifts at Maple Leaf Centre Birmingham, you will enjoy close working relationships with the entire mental health team.
Together you will seek to establish a common understanding of the various problems patients are experiencing, set strategic management plans and utilise your exceptional therapeutic skills to develop a constructive pathway to management or recovery.
The Maple Leaf Centre Birmingham takes their contribution to medical development and advancement seriously, emphasising excellence across the domains that matter the most to the wellbeing of older patients. As a result, you will have access to some of the most advanced medical facilities in the country and unparalleled opportunities for specialism.
In your role as an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, great reliance is placed upon your ability to demonstrate how the provision of critical, person-centred,
individualised care that promotes independence and prioritises choice can transform lives.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor, you will have:
- Quick thinking abilities
- Patience and the ability to teach, coach and mentor
- Excellent attention to detail
- A systematic approach to tasks and delegation
- Excellent timekeeping
- A pro-active approach to research and academia
- Empathy and understanding
- A flexible attitude
- A dedication to improving and developing knowledge and skills
- Active listening skills
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor with Birmingham And Solihull MH NHS Foundation Trust you will:
- Carry out new referral assessments, deliver therapy,
refer to psychology colleagues for relevant interventions, or follow up patients for medication reviews.
- Formulate care and treatment plans, prescribe various types of treatment, and provide guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
- Actively support patients and their families, communicating clinical information to explain a diagnosis and treatment options using various methods to ensure practical understanding.
- Communicate with patients and the wider multidisciplinary team on shared patient decision making.
- Work in and where appropriate, lead a multidisciplinary team.
- Assess and prioritise patient/client requirements, delegating effectively to others.
- Recognise, review,
and report a patient's condition and any changes to the patient and the multidisciplinary team.
- Performing basic administrative and clerical tasks, such as keeping records of test results, writing prescriptions, providing information to patients, and monitoring treatment plans.
- Help teach and train other junior doctors, medical students, and other multidisciplinary team members.
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
- MBChB (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) or equivalent.
- 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
Increased life expectancy has resulted in a growing demand for dedicated senior psychiatry services, if you are dedicated to achieving the very best outcomes for elderly patients by combining skill and expertise with clinical leadership and critical decision making, we want to hear from you. Apply today.