Specialty Doctor - General Adult Psychiatry (Taunton)

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Job Overview

Are you a Specialty 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.

Main duties of the job

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 or plans to achieve , however we can offer you a highly competitive and flexible benefits packagein 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.

Working for our organisation

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We are delighted to announce that 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.

Location

This is a unique chance to live near some of the UK’s most desirable and family-friendly locations; to experience life in the West Country -- the beautiful stretches of sandy coastline, many areas of outstanding natural beauty, the home of the renowned Glastonbury Festival, the world-famous Cheddar Cheese, pretty villages, bustling market towns, the cosmopolitan centres of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, whilst also being less than 2 hours from London.

Somerset also offers some of the best private schools in the country such as the Millfield School, Bruton School, Queens College, Taunton School, Kings College, Wellington School and Blundell’s, to award winning state schools such as the Richard Huish College.

Please note: If you are successful for interview, you will be required to bring the following with you: Proof of any essential qualifications stated on the Job Description, proof of NHS payslip if coming from another NHS Organisation and all ID to prove your identity and Right to Work (More details will follow for successful applicants invited to interview)

Our values are simple: Outstanding Care, Working Together, Listening and Leading.

Benefits

With this in mind, we offer a range of staff benefits including

We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientious of our staff.

Excellent annual leave entitlement

Relocation package – up to £8,000 (Subject to eligibility)

Enhanced rates of pay

NHS Pension Scheme

Free parking on most of our sites

NHS discounts

Training and development

Flexible working

Paid registration fees for the 1st year for newly qualified staff

For more information please contact the recruitment team via email: SomersetNHSJobs@SomersetFT.nhs.uk

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