Specialist Doctor - General Adult Psychiatry (Taunton)

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Specialty Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry

Are you a Specialist doctor that has a broad experience working with General Adults? Are you someone that thrives off the involvement of improving psychiatric services? We are looking for someone like you to join our mental health team, which provides psychiatric support to the Taunton Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach team, alongside 4 other senior psychiatry colleagues.

You will be joining a highly performing team and be supported by 2, full time consultants in Taunton and 1.7 WTE Associate specialists. As well as this you’ll collaboratively work alongside the HHT and EI teams, and work on the same site as the Inpatient ward and PICU. This has allowed the development of strong working relationships between the teams and improved patient care.

Our community services have expanded across the Trust with concomitant expansion in staff, as we have built up a new service called Open Mental Health in the last 2 years. The service works closely with primary care, the wider community and the voluntary sector and includes a wide variety of specialists including psychologists, assistant psychologists, liaison staff, eating disorder leads and support workers. This has opened up the options for patients referred or being discharged from mental health services. We’ve also improved our services through Linked software and interface meetings, to ensure all referrals have a considered and appropriate offer with reduced repeated assessments, enabling a more holistic service with greater satisfaction for staff and patients

Ideally we are looking for someone with entry onto the GMC Specialist Register and that has their mental health act section 12 approval, however we can offer you a highly competitive and flexible benefits package in addition to outstanding support and development opportunities you’ll receive. This could include supporting you with gaining your Section 12 Approval / Approved Clinician status or helping you obtain your GMC registration through the GMC sponsorship route.

About The Trust

Our trust was formed on 1 April 2020 when Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust merged. We provide community and mental health services across the whole of Somerset and acute hospital services in the north, west and centre of the county and beyond. Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population.

In November 2020 Somerset FT was shortlisted for the mental health trust of the year award in the widely acclaimed HSJ Awards. It follows a series of initiatives that we’ve introduced that have changed the way we develop and plan our mental health services – by listening to and involving patients themselves. The HSJ judges said they were looking for trusts which offer excellent, patient-centric care built on strong engagement between clinicians within and beyond the organisation.

The area

Straddled between areas of outstanding natural beauty and the idyllic rolling hills of Exmoor, featuring national hotspots for cycling, surfing, and climbing such as Cheddar Gorge, there’s plenty to keep you occupied alongside the abundance of music festivals and local traditions. Somerset offers you the chance to live near some of the UK’s most desirable locations; from the beaches in North Devon and Cornwall, to the cosmopolitan centres of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, whilst also being less than 2 hours from London. The County town of Taunton has diverse shopping, restaurants, and regularly hosts international music and sporting fixtures.

The South West of England is a highly desirable place to live. Compared to other regions, house prices in the area are quite reasonable. Rural properties in many of the pretty villages in South Somerset and North Dorset are within easy commute to the hospital. Many properties have land or large gardens attached.

If you’ve got family commitments, or are looking to settle down, Somerset offers some of the best schools in the country ranging from Public institutions such as Millfield, Queens College, Taunton School, Kings College, Wellington, and Blundell’s, to award winning state schools such as Richard Huish College which has been ranked in the top 10 of A-level providers nationally for the last eight years, through to secondary’s ranking in the top 5% nationally such as The Castle school in Taunton.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Dr Mike Campbell, Clinical Director on 01823 36 8491 or email Michael.Campbell@SomersetFT.nhs.uk

If you would like to discuss the application process for this role please contact Jordan Pollard, Medical Recruitment Consultant on Jordan.Pollard@somersetft.nhs.uk or 07765898212

If you are international application interested in this role please contact Katy Cleverley, International Medical Recruitment Consultant on katy.cleverley@somersetft.nhs.uk