Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disabilities

• Assess and treat adults with learning disabilities and complex mental, behavioural or physical health needs.
• Provide clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Offer advice to primary care, community and inpatient services.
• Support appropriate access and reasonable adjustments within mainstream services.
• Participate in multidisciplinary meetings, clinical governance, quality improvement and service development.
• Supervise resident doctors and contribute to teaching and training.
• Support the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions and provide advice on relevant mental health and capacity legislation.

• Deliver specialist community psychiatric assessment and treatment.
• Work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and professional colleagues.
• Provide medical and professional leadership across the service.
• Maintain oversight of clinical quality, risk and patient pathways.
• Contribute to safeguarding, audit, governance and service evaluation.
• Maintain GMC registration, Approved Clinician status and continuing professional development.
• Participate in annual appraisal and job planning.
• Be approved as a Responsible Clinician or undertake the required training.

Essential

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• TRANSPORT Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.

Desirable

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• MRCPsych
• Additional clinical qualifications.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: SL awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients