Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT)
Specialty Doctor in Forensic Psychiatry
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Job Description
The postholder will be part of the forensic psychiatry staff. Forensic mental health services managed by CPFT are of two main forms: services in hospital and services in the community (there is also the OPD pathway based at HMP Whitemoor).
George Mackenzie House is the CPFT 20 bed low secure unit providing inpatient treatment for men and women. The non-secure ward, Mulberry Ward has three forensic beds acting as ‘step down’ beds for the low secure unit as well as forensic admission beds from the community.
The base clinical duties are at the George Mackenzie House, Low Secure Unit, Fulbourn Hospital.
- Working with forensic consultants, the postholder will provide day to day treatment of patients detained at the secure unit.
- The postholder will have a high presence on the ward, attend daily handover meetings and engage in ward rounds, care programme approach meetings, and unit governance meetings.
- The postholder will be involved in conducting assessments of new referrals to the unit, giving evidence before tribunals and preparing reports.
- The postholder will have clinical duties related to the three forensic beds on Mulberry 3 ward at Fulbourn Hospital.
- The successful applicant will also contribute to outpatient work in the community forensic service.
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Other medical staff within the service include training grade doctors (CT and ST) and an SAS doctor. There are GP sessions to the secure unit.
About Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
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To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Further Information
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Pamela Peters
- Job title: Associate Clinical Director
- Email address: Pamela.Peters@cpft.nhs.uk
Alan Smith
alan.smith@cpft.nhs.uk
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