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Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustAboutNHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire etc. Making a difference for you, with you. Our vision, mission and values are all part of the roadmap for all we do Our dedication to caring and making a difference doesn’t just extend to our patients, but to our staff too. Wellbeing is a Trust priority – we were the second-highest scoring Trust in the country for the Wellbeing measure on the 2018 National Staff Survey. We are actively committed to promoting equal opportunities and diversity, and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to equal opportunities is reflected in our staff networks (BME - Black Minority Ethnic, LGBTQ, Disability and Working Carers). We also hold the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition scheme Silver Award, and are a Living Wage and Disability Confident employer. We offer excellent employment benefits including: Large variety of learning and development courses available to staff throughout the year Contributory pension scheme A wide range of family friendly policies Salary sacrifice scheme A variety of Occupational Health services and classes 27 days holiday plus bank holidays for new starters, rising with service Don’t just take our word for it: In 2018, 72.2% of our staff recommended NHFT as a place to work, the highest score for trusts of our type. We were also honoured to win the Health Service Journal’s coveted Trust of the Year award the same year. Key detailsLocationSite: St Mary's Hospital Town: Kettering Postcode: NN15 7PW Major / Minor Region: Northamptonshire Contract type & working patternContract: Permanent Hours: Part time - 8 sessions per week SalarySalary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period: Yearly Grade: NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant SpecialtyMain area: Psychiatry Job overviewTo provide the highest quality care to patients on the Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit within the St Mary's Hospital site in Kettering. We are offering a £40,000 welcome bonus to the successful candidate, paid over the course of your first two years in post. AdvertThe Consultant will play a pivotal role in ensuring proactive, recovery-focused, individualised treatment plans are in place and being followed for each patient. He will be supported with a team of professionals who have been recruited specifically for this unit. Our intention is to have a short length of stay to manage only the acute phase of illness and support care in the least restrictive manner. Working for our organisationNHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesProvide clinical leadership to the team and take clinical responsibility for the assessment and treatment of patients as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team. Undertake clinical sessions at a prison and attend to all relevant matters there as a senior clinician and leader within that service. Undertake Responsibility for ‘tracking’ and for gatekeeping assessments. Take responsibility for carrying out clinical and administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients including completion of reports to First Tier Tribunal (Mental Health), Hospital Managers, Annual Statutory Reports to the MoJ and other statutory and non-statutory reports within the required timescales. Leading the CPA meetings / Provide medical input into MAPPA as required Work closely with forensic and non-forensic services, including the Ministry of Justice in the case of restricted patients, to facilitate the transfer or discharge of suitable patients from higher levels of security to the forensic and other community services in collaboration with other professionals. Applicant requirementsYou 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. Person specificationKnowledgeEssential criteriaMRCPsych or equivalent On Specialist Register/CCT in General Adult Psychiatry Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act Desirable criteriaAdditional Postgraduate Qualifications Publication of original research SkillsEssential criteriaAbility to present complex information to a variety of audiences including courts and tribunals Ability to motivate and develop junior Medical Staff and other MDT members An understanding of the use of security in the treatment of psychiatric patients Desirable criteriaWide 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 Further details / informal visits contactName: Dr Das Purkayastha Job title: Clinical Director Email address: [email protected]#J-18808-Ljbffr