Old Age Psychiatry Registrar

Client Name: Southern Health NHS
Role: Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor
Location: St Marys Hospital

Benefits:

• First sight of shifts across multiple NHS trusts
• Competitive pay rates
• A dedicated placement officer
• Free CPD courses and career support with Medacs Academy
• Hundreds of new shifts available every day
• Long term jobs and short shifts available
• Lucrative referral scheme
• Revalidation support
• 24/7/365 support - we're here when you need us

This exciting role best suits an Old Age Psychiatry Middle Grade Doctor who is looking for a developmental position within a Trust renowned for their dedication to achieving excellence in all aspects of patient care.

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 at St Marys Hospital. You will 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 St Marys Hospital, 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 St Marys Hospital 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.

Development and opportunities
As a dedicated Middle Grade Doctor, you will be imparting complex knowledge and championing skill enhancement throughout the entire hospital. Leading by example, you will encourage uptake for the wide range of development and support packages available, supporting and mentoring your fellow healthcare professionals in their continuous professional development.

Skills focus
As an Old Age Psychiatric Middle Grade Doctor, you will be fundamental in developing, improving, and expanding the psychiatry provision within St Marys Hospital. Working alongside a cohesive team of dynamic, motivated, and progressive clinical professionals, you will play an active and hands-on role to manage and understand mental illness, emotional disturbance, and abnormal behaviour.

Patient focus
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 Southern Health NHS 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.
• Perform 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.

If you are ready to take up a consultancy position in a hospital that prides itself on the opportunities provided to staff and the care provided to patients, apply today and enjoy access to hundreds of shifts, a dedicated Placement Officer and revalidation support.