General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist

Reference

PRI81451

Location

Kneesworth House, Bassingbourn-cum-Kneesworth, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5JP

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Full Time

Salary

£135,471.48 and monthly car allowance of £612.50 pro rata

Hours

37.5

Job Advert - Division Information

Ready for the recognition and rewards you deserve?

We don’t just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn’t exist without their combined energy, expertise and effort.  So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.

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We don’t just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn’t exist without their combined energy, expertise and effort.  So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.  
Great opportunity for a General Adult Psychiatrist for Rehabilitation Service

The Hospital
Priory Kneesworth provides a range of mental health services, including Acute, PICU, Secure, Recovery and Rehabilitation ranging from High Dependency to open services, supporting Mental illness, Personality Disorder, men and women. 
Priory Group’s focus on quality improvement, combined with Priory Kneesworths focus on delivering patient-centred care allow us to continuously evaluate and enhance our performance.   

Priory Kneesworth enjoys a stable and established MDT working model, which includes OT, psychology, and social worker and experienced RMN.  The hospital offers a range of treatments and interventions including promoting least restrictive practice and patient collaboration in decision making. The service works closely with other Priory Healthcare services enabling and developing supportive care pathways. The site is well resourced to support complex physical health needs, provision includes practice nurses, dietician, GP, dentist, chiropodist, optician and SALT. 

 

Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.

Job Advert Role Description

Our approach

The treatment programmes at Priory Kneesworth aim to optimise patient recovery and potential, by managing safety and safeguarding, minimising risk behaviours and enabling development of psychological / emotional, social and occupational skills and resilience.
All interventions aim to support the patient`s journey and discharge. These interventions include:

• Mental health awareness group
• Individual and group psychological therapy
• Managing anger programme
• Drug and alcohol programme
• Relationship programme (social skills)
• Coping skills programme
• Problem solving therapy

Our structured approach to care explicitly acknowledges and supports the issue of change (or readiness for change) and is essential for successful engagement and treatment.

The Role 
We will have a vacancy for a dedicated 0.6 General Adult Psychiatrist on rehabilitation service with experience working with patients with mental illness, substance misuse, and complex needs. Experience in neuropsychiatry, learning disability, and Autism desirable.
We seek to appoint a highly motivated General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to complement our existing medical work force. As a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, you would lead a multidisciplinary team of professionals from nursing, clinical psychology, and occupational therapy who will form part of the MDT.

The successful candidate will be joining an expanding and clinically diverse Priory.  There is strong governance structure and the successful applicant will be expected to take an active role in service and quality development activities and to participate in governance meetings and Service Line meetings, as necessary. 

Priory Kneesworth operates a Consultant second on call service.   

Please see the detailed Job Plan attached to this advertisement for the full details of the post.
Full registration with a licence to practise with the GMC is required. For more information, visit www.gmc-uk.org

Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of interview or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR).

Candidates must have a higher medical qualification (MRCPsych or equivalent).
 
We’d like to offer you:
Competitive salary
30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
Birthday Holiday  - Your Birthday as an extra day’s annual leave
Contributory pension scheme
Life Assurance
Medical indemnity cover
Disclosure check cost coverage
Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing training
CPD support
Free on-site parking
Priory Online Benefits and Cashback rewards
Cycle to work scheme
 
For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Ranbir Singh, Medical Director, Priory Kneesworth 01763 255 700/07860924656
ranbirsingh@priorygroup.com to discuss this exciting opportunity further.  
 

Division DBS info

About us

As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services to adults and young people, Priory Group promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development. 

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes, education facilities and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

Priory maintains that vaccination remains our very best line of defence against COVID-19 and believes that our colleagues working with vulnerable individuals have a professional duty to be vaccinated.  As part of our wider infection control efforts, and to meet our commissioner and customer requirements, we continue to record vaccination status for all colleagues and we therefore request that you disclose this information as part of your application.  Your vaccination status will not affect any offer of employment and will be held in line with GDPR requirements.  We thank you for your understanding. 

Disclosure

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory Group will cover the cost of a DBS check.

Job Description

Consultant_Psychiatrist_Job_Description_Rehabilitation_Kneesworth_18_06_2021.pdf

Closing Date

30/09/2023