Part-Time Associate Specialist

If you’re an Associate Specialist looking for a new opportunity to join a friendly multidisciplinary team in an established secure service setting delivering high-quality clinical service to people with complex mental health conditions across the medium and low secure service.

Working part time 18.75 hours a week alongside the unit's multidisciplinary team, including the Consultant, to ensure that service users receive a holistic and person‑centric treatment programme based on the recovery model.

As an Associate Specialist, you will ensure the high quality first‑line medical care of our inpatients, liaise effectively with external professionals and carers, provide written and oral evidence for Hospital Managers’ and Tribunal hearings, work toward safe discharges including preparing discharge summaries, reports and other necessary documentation and be a valued and effective member of the multidisciplinary team at Thornford Park Hospital.

This established service looks to continually innovate, improve and deliver excellent care for its service users, has an active programme of education and research and provides significant developmental opportunities for its staff.

There are currently four other Associate Specialists working in the service. There is no formal on‑call commitment attached to the role, but there are opportunities to join the on‑call rota through a locum agency which provides on‑call services for the hospital.

• Ensuring an adequate handover to colleagues including out of hours
• Reviewing the mental state of patients as per the hospital procedure
• Ensuring that each patient has a full physical health screen upon admission including physical examination, ECG and bloods
• Lead and manage any physical health concerns that emerge during an inpatient stay
• Seeking collateral history from other professionals and family
• Completing discharge letters/reports/s62 forms
• Preparing First‑tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers’ hearing reports under the supervision of the Consultant
• Depending on your experience, 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.
• Work effectively with colleagues to ensure that patients have access to appropriate medical cover at all times, which will require participation on an on‑call rota for the Thornford Park Hospital site

• Full GMC registration
• Experience working in psychiatry within multi‑disciplinary teams.
• To be in good standing for CPD with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• To have had an appraisal/RITA within the last year.
• At least 3 years experience in Psychiatry (desirable)
• Experience working as a doctor within a PICU/secure services (desirable)
• MRCPsych (desirable)
• Section 12 (2) approval (desirable)
• AC status (desirable)

• Competitive annual salary
• Indemnity Insurance
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata (at the commencement of employment)
• Free meals on duty and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities
• Career development and training
• A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP)
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced Maternity Package

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts and special offers, car leasing without a credit check and much more.

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales, providing four services including:
Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is an opportunity for you to grow and move with Elysium.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

The safety of our service users and colleagues is our priority and as such we encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID‑19.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility and are committed to promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users. Candidates will be subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure.