Specialty Doctor – Acute Care- Bowmere Hospital

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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership Trust are looking to recruit a Specialty Doctor to work on our Acute Care ward in Bowmere Hospital, Chester.

The post is for a full-time specialty doctor to work across 2 Acute Care wards: Beech Ward (adults of working age) and Juniper Ward (ageless functional mental health). The doctor appointed will be working with two consultants who are part of the inpatient team.

The post holder will work as a senior medical member of the team, providing adequate medical support. The post holder will independently review patients and write appropriate treatment plans. They will be a member of the MDT and will attend meetings as required. The post holder is also expected to write tribunal reports and attend tribunals and managers' hearings. The specialty doctor will exercise a middle-grade level of clinical responsibility as delegated by the consultant to whom they are responsible.

The post holder will participate in multidisciplinary clinical meetings in the ward settings depending upon the schedule of the team in which they are based.

The work will consist of assessments of emergency and crisis situations, usually hospital-based, together with ongoing care under the supervision of the consultant. This involves assessing newly admitted patients, documenting history taking, assessing mental states, conducting physical examinations, ongoing note keeping, timely completion of discharge summaries/letters, prescribing, and multidisciplinary working.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health, and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

CWP is committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.

To support this, we offer up to three weeks of induction, dependent on the role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This programme welcomes you to CWP and provides you with information and training to support you in your role.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

For further details or informal visits, contact: Name: Dr Ian Porter, Job title: Clinical Director, Email address: ian.porter7@nhs.net.

If you consider yourself Neurodivergent and need help to complete your application form, please contact cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or telephone 01244 393100.