We are seeking two Speciality Doctors, one for our CAMHS ward and one for our Acute ward.
Set in the leafy suburb of Edgbaston, close to Birmingham City centre, Priory Hospital Woodbourne is set in beautiful grounds, conveniently located for access to the West Midlands motorway network and with good local public transport links.
Our unique range of services gives our colleagues the opportunity to develop skills and experience of working with a broad range of mental health conditions across five mental health service lines, across the hospital’s seven wards.
We provide a diverse range of inpatient services, including acute and psychiatric intensive care for adults (including our unique 18-25 year old service), child and adolescent mental health, specialist eating disorder (including day care) and private acute and addictions treatment programmes. Our multi-disciplinary teams take great pride in delivering personalised treatment programmes to our patients and have established an excellent reputation for providing the highest standards of care.
If you are looking for an employer that’s passionate about supporting your career progression, where you can work as part of a committed, diverse and experienced team, and you share our passion for delivering outstanding care to make a real and lasting difference to patients’ lives, then Priory Hospital Woodbourne is the place for you!
Speciality Doctors at Woodbourne will join a large team of substantive medical staff, each ward is led by a Consultant Psychiatrist supported by their Speciality Doctor and other members of the Multi Disciplinary Team. We provide an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical knowledge and practice working alongside experienced Consultants and clinicians within the team, offering a wide variety of clinical practice not usually available within the NHS. We offer a solid commitment to your CPD and have an excellent track record in supporting Speciality Doctors to achieve success in professional examinations and to move on to higher specialist training.
We currently have a vacancies in the Acute service.
Key Accountabilities include:
- Management of admissions and discharges.
- Day to day management of patients on the ward including undertaking risk assessments, MDT liaison, outcome measurements.
- Prompt mental health assessments, reports and clinical summaries. The post holder must have proficient ICT skills to use our electronic records system (Carenotes) and produce reports.
- Participation in audit, research, quality and performance management and other clinical and professional activities.
- What we’d like from you:
- A medical degree (MB ChB or equivalent)
- Full GMC registration with licence to practice
- A minimum of one year's experience in mental health
What we’d like to give you:
- A competitive salary
- Disclosure check cost coverage
- Comprehensive induction and commitment to ongoing training
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra days annual leave
- Online benefits and cashback rewards
- Cycle to work scheme
Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.