Associate Specialist

Are you ready to deliver exceptional psychiatric care in a clinical setting?

Join our dedicated team at St Neots as the Associate Specialist Doctor and play a key role in providing high-quality care to service users with complex mental health needs.

Role Overview

Working under the direction and supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist, you will undertake psychiatric and external assessments for service users referred to the unit, ensuring the appropriate level of care is provided. You will collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team to deliver comprehensive Care Programmes tailored to individual needs.

Responsibilities

• Prepare discharge summaries, reports and documentation for CPA meetings, First-tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers’ hearings.
• Arrange and review clinical tests and investigations, chase results, and act on findings.
• Support physical health care, including responsibility for bloods and ECGs with the site phlebotomist, and ensure ward staff carry out physical observations in line with medical instructions.
• Participate in learning activities, supervision, and Clinical Governance initiatives, contributing to audits, research, and teaching.
• Deliver staff training relevant to the service user group and support service development.
• Work effectively with colleagues to maintain medical cover at all times, including participation in the on-call rota and providing prospective cover for other specialty doctors during leave periods.

Key Duties

• Undertake psychiatric and external assessments for clients referred to the unit.
• Prepare discharge summaries, reports and other associated documentation.
• Participate in learning activities and supervision.
• Participation in Clinical Governance activities, and account for contracted hours utilised in research, Continuing Professional Development and other non-clinical duties.
• Working effectively with colleagues to ensure that clients have access to appropriate medical cover at all times.
• Support the GP in delivering physical health care and emergency treatment to patients in complex care.
• Arrange appropriate clinical tests and investigations and take responsibility for chasing up results and acting on them.
• Ensure physical observations by ward staff are carried out in accordance with medical instructions.
• Providing oral evidence at First-tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers' hearings under the supervision of the Consultant.
• Contributing to the service development by participating in Clinical Governance activities by conducting audits, research and teaching.
• Providing prospective cover to other specialty doctors when they are on leave.
• Be part of the on-call cover rota.
• Deliver staff training relevant to the service user group.