Resident Medical Officer

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Are you an outstanding Junior Doctor looking for new challenges, career development and a competitive salary?

Cygnet Hospital Beckton is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Resident Medical Officer to join our friendly, experienced and supportive medical team.

As Resident Medical Officer
, you’ll be covering a mix of day and night shifts, providing On Call cover between 5pm and 9am on weekdays and between 9am and 9am on weekends, on a rota of 4 days on / 3 days off every week and potential for Monday to Friday daytime clinical duties covering inpatient wards as needed (floating support).

This is an exciting opportunity to work across four highly specialised inpatient psychiatric wards offering excellent exposure to complex psychiatry within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.

On calls are completed from home but the post holder would be required to come into the service as needed, so the ability to travel is essential.

The on-call rota is shared between three other experienced Speciality Doctors, ensuring continuity of care and mutual support. The on-all is flexibly arranged with the other doctors.

Unlike a traditional Resident Medical Officer post, this role combines autonomous daytime clinical responsibilities with resident on-call duties, providing a broad and varied clinical experience across four specialist wards. On-calls will likely be primary focus.

Working closely with experienced Consultant Psychiatrists and multidisciplinary teams, the successful applicant will develop increasing clinical autonomy while receiving excellent clinical support and supervision.

At Cygnet, our perks go way beyond pension schemes and excellent professional development.

You’ll also enjoy shopping, travel and leisure discounts – as well as a range of healthcare and financial benefits – to support you to be happy both in and out of work.

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The successful candidate will potentially provide daytime medical cover across 4 wards as needed.

• Undertaking psychiatric and physical health assessments (including, ECGs, Bloods, patient admissions, patient assessments, risk assessments, mental health assessments).

• Providing day-to-day medical management of inpatients with complex psychiatric and physical health needs.

• Monitoring and managing physical healthcare within psychiatric inpatient settings.

• Participating in ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings, CPA reviews and Mental Health Act processes.

• Liaising effectively with patients, families, GPs, acute hospitals, community mental health teams and other external agencies as appropriate.

• Maintaining accurate clinical documentation and contributing to clinical governance, auditing, and quality improvement activities.

• Salary up to £65,000 per year

• Generous annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service

• 5 days study leave, study budget and in-house CPD/ peer group programme

• Company paid Life Assurance scheme covering 3x salary

• Contributory pension scheme

• Research opportunities to include publishing in The Cygnet Journal (Cygnets co-produced peer review journal) and joining the Cygnet Research & Development Group

• Company Funded Cash plan with the ability to claim up to £1000 per annum worth of benefits including free Physiotherapy, Osteopaths, Optical, dental, consultations, scans and free prescriptions

• Gym Discounts across the UK as well as free online fitness classes with Class Pass, Nutritional Programmes and Fitness Consultations

• Discount schemes including Perkbox, NHS…