Job summary
- Main area
- Medical and Dental
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (6 months (Aug 2024 – Feb 2025))
- Hours
- Part time - 0.6 hour per week (3 days per week)
- Job ref
- 306-BEH-2023
- Employer
- Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Enfield South Locality Team
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £52,530 - £82,400 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust is responsible for providing mental health services for people of all ages across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, as well as providing some specialist services across the whole of North London and beyond. Since January 2011, the Trust also provides adult and children’s community health services in Enfield, following the transfer of Enfield Community Services from NHS Enfield.
Please note - Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health Trust will only accept on-line application forms.
Job overview
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There is an exciting opportunity within the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) for a Specialty Doctor (ST4-6 equivalent) to join the Community General Adult Mental Health Services in Enfield.
We currently have 2 vacant posts within our services: -1 full-time post (5 days, 10PAs): Enfield North Locality Team and Single Point of Access Team -1 part-time post (3 days, 6PAs): Enfield South Locality Team
Please refer to the updated Job Description for these posts and the Person Specifications within it. These posts will be for a 6-month fixed term basis with the option to extend further at the end of the 6-month period.
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For any questions about these posts, please contact Dr Ekaterina Doukova (Associate Clinical Director – Enfield) – [email protected].
Main duties of the job
These are fixed term posts which have become available due to service gaps. An induction will be provided to your placement explaining roles and responsibilities as well as your workplace. A Trust induction will also be provided after starting in your allocated post.
The successful applicants will work within their allocated post. The post will offer the opportunity to perform clinical assessments of individuals with mental health problems including mental state examination, history taking, and attendance of meetings with the multidisciplinary team. Additional opportunities with regards to Mental Health Act Assessments, tribunal report writing and attendance as well as leading of MDT meetings/work.
The post holder will gain experience with the full spectrum of psychiatric morbidity. This post is based in a multidisciplinary setting and the post holder will work closely with all the members of the team (consultant, other doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers & graduate mental health workers). The care delivered is recovery-focused, placing emphasis on individuals’ strengths and goals for the future.
Working for our organisation
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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust is responsible for providing mental health services for people of all ages across the London Boroughs of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey, as well as providing some specialist services across the whole of North London and beyond. Since January 2011, the Trust also provides adult and children’s community health services in Enfield, following the transfer of Enfield Community Services from NHS Enfield. We have been working together in a Partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust for some time, with a single Chair and Chief Executive since 2021 and single Executive Team since 2022. We launched our North London Mental Health Partnership Strategy in May 2023 and in July 2023 our Boards agreed that coming together to create one new Trust is best for our service users, our staff and our local communities. Subject to final approvals, we will be formally established as one new Trust on 1 October 2024. |
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
· The responsibility within a multi-disciplinary team for the medical assessment and diagnosis. To provide up to date, evidence based clinical interventions and treatments in line with widely accepted bodies of evidence.
· To take responsibility for the delivery of key performance indicators (KPIs).
· Participation in Care Programme Approach (CPA) as appropriate, including patient review, multidisciplinary meetings related to CPA, training and medically relevant clinical documentation.
· A willingness to be flexible in altering the timetable according to service developments.
· Writing Tribunal Reports and reports to other agencies as they arise.
· To ensure appropriate clinical documentation.
· To work collaboratively with colleagues in other service lines and with GPs.
· To collaborate with GPs, hospital doctors and primary care clinicians re the physical healthcare.
· To work with recovery house staff and engage with clinical governance meeting with staff and managers.
· The Locality team manager with consultant manages patients through a case load management system.
There are two posts based in Enfield. There is one post (full time) split between 2 services – North Locality Team and Single Point of Access team. There is one post (part time) as part of the South Locality Team. Clinical supervision will be provided by Senior Medical Staff within the team as required. There will be an opportunity to attend the local Trust teaching programmes as well as an opportunity to gain experience within Quality Improvement Work.
The post will provide excellent experience of working with people with a wide range of acute mental health problems, gaining experience in assessing and formulation of treatment plans.
Below is the team composition of the Enfield South Locality Team as an example and this is mimicked closely by the North Locality Team and Single Point of Access Team
Person specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential criteria
- • Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a licence to practise from the GMC by the intended start date
- • A minimum of 3 years postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be in a speciality training programme in psychiatry or as a fixed term speciality trainee in psychiatry; or shall have equivalent experience and competencies
- Risk assessment and risk management
- • Good and up to date understanding of principles and practice of psychopharmacology and psychological treatments in psychiatry
- • Excellent communication skills, verbal, non-verbal and written
- • Formulate effective working relationships
- • Function autonomously as well as being a team player. Commitment of working within a multidisciplinary team
- • Assessing, formulating and prioritising patient needs
- • Understanding of clinical governance
Desirable criteria
- • Section 12 approval
- • Full MRCPsych
- • More than two years of experience working at ST4 level or above
- • Further training in any psychiatric speciality
- • Some experience of clinical audit
- • Experience of working in a multi-cultural society
- • Skills in a range of therapeutic and psycho-social treatment options
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Ekaterina Doukova
- Job title
- Associate Clinical Director – Enfield
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 702 4554/6
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