Consultant Psychiatrist General Adult Mental Health Inpatient Ward

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Are you an experienced acute care consultant or just starting your consultant journey? If you are looking for a post where you can make a real difference, we are looking for you! We are currently undertaking an extensive service redesign and refurbishment programme. It's an exciting time to join our team.

If you haven't already explored Fife, it's a truly beautiful part of Scotland steeped in history, with great opportunities for urban or countryside living.

We can offer you:
• Relocation package and/or support with initial accommodation fees
• Support with research or audit projects through our strong links with local Universities
• Very strong peer group support within the consultant body
• Future planned investments; consultant involvement in service development encouraged
• Opportunities for involvement in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching/training - links with the universities of Edinburgh, Dundee and St Andrews.
• Opportunity to develop specialist interests
• Inpatient and community roles locality based

This is a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist post (10 sessions) at Lomond Ward providing adult mental health acute inpatient care in the grounds of Stratheden Hospital.

Lomond Ward is one of three General Adult inpatient wards covering Fife are currently located in three sites.
• Lomond ward - Stratheden Hospital in Cupar (Glenrothes and North East Fife)
• Ravenscraig ward - Whyteman's Brae Hospital in Kirkcaldy (Central Fife)
• Ward 2 - Queen Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline (West Fife)

In addition to this, Hollyview Ward is an 8 bed mixed gender intensive psychiatric care unit (IPCU) also located on the Stratheden hospital campus.

Each of the adult mental health wards serves a primary sector for local population but it's likely that patients from other areas may be admitted from time to time if required.

This post is for Lomond Ward. This is a mixed ward with a bed capacity of 22 with surge capability in extremis. The wards have a multidisciplinary teams ethos comprising core nursing staff with access to Occupational Therapy. The postholder will be expected to work alongside these other professionals to deliver a holistic treatment plan for each patient.

There is an emphasis on service development across the acute wards with a focus on providing a therapeutic environment including patient safety, meaningful activity and carer involvement. There are several workstreams related to this and the postholder would be expected to become actively involved in elements of this where appropriate.

The post holder will be working alongside a full-time Specialty grade doctor, and 4 resident doctors. Full secretarial support will be made available, as will dedicated consultant office space.

Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Portfolio Pathway (formerly known as CESR - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training to Non-UK Applicants must demonstrate that they have the knowledge, skills and experience required for practising as an eligible specialist in the UK.

Interview date: 8 January from 2:30 - 5pm

For further information please contact:
Dr Jackie Drummond, Associate Medical Director View email address on apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk
Deon Loudon Clinical Services Manager Adult Mental Health Service View email address on apply.jobs.scot.nhs.uk

NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK.

For specific types of post, if you do not have the necessary eligibility to work in the UK, it might be possible (though not guaranteed) to secure sponsorship via a UK Skilled Worker/Health & Care Worker Visa. However, this is only possible if the employer is a licenced Sponsor, and if the post does not fall below the current minimum salary threshold or ‘going rate’. Further information on these criteria can be found in the government website.
It is ESSENTIAL that you have checked that you either already have an appropriate right to work in the UK or that the post would be eligible to be sponsored BEFORE submitting your application form.

We offer flexible working and family-friendly policies and fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

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