- 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.
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
- 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.
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment.
- 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
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Consultant Psychiatrist, Inpatient Older People's Mental Health - Reading, United Kingdom - Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
It isno secret that we have an outstanding rating from the CQC, our staff surveyresults are one of the best in the country, that we are leaders in digitalmaturity and that we have a mature Quality Improvement approach to innovationand development.
Whatelse we can offer you? Besides all of this is the chance to have time to pursueyour own interests, so if they lie in R&D, QI, or management &leadership well support you.
In2021 Berkshire Healthcare was 4th out of the 48 community and mentalhealth trusts for the number of research projects we recruited to, and haverefreshed our research strategy and are looking for enthusiastic colleagues todevelop and implement our research programme.
QI,the Trust is very active in terms of quality improvement, including theopportunity to gain fully accredited QI qualifications.
Ifyou wish to play a pivotal role in leading and developing the service, theopportunities are there. Equally if you wish to develop in this area, we arehappy to support and nurture your talent to allow you to take on such roles inthe future.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached Consultant jobdescription together with the person specification for this role.
About us
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust(BHFT) was formed in April 2001 and successfully became licensed as aFoundation Trust in May 2007. In April 2011 the community serviceswhich were previously the provider arms of NHS Berkshire East and NHS BerkshireWest PCTs merged with the Trust.
The maincentres of population are Reading in the West of the County and Slough in theEast. Within Berkshire there are alsomajor populations at Newbury, Wokingham in the West and Bracknell, Maidenhead,Windsor and Ascot in the East, as well and many significant urban developmentsin smaller towns forming essentially a single conurbation along the M4Corridor.
Berkshireis characterised by concentrations of population and large rural areas. It includes some of the most affluent andleast deprived communities in the country, but also has pockets of markedlydeprived wards. The Trust is part of two IntegratedCare Systems (Frimley ICS and Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire WestICS) and partners with six local unitary authorities.
The trust has an outstanding CQCrating.
BHFT employs over 4000people working from more than100sites.
At Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust,our mission is to maximise independence and quality of life. Our vision is tobe the best place to give care, the best place to get care.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see the attached Consultant jobdescription together with the person specification for this role.
Person SpecificationExperience
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Qualifications
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