Our client is seeking an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry to join an established Mental Health Service in Guernsey. This is a senior clinical opportunity combining inpatient psychiatry with liaison work, alongside a collaborative multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will play a key role in the delivery of high-quality adult mental health care, providing clinical leadership, specialist psychiatric input and contributing to the ongoing development of services.
Job Duties:
- Provide Consultant-level psychiatric care within an adult inpatient setting.
- Undertake psychiatric assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning and ongoing clinical management.
- Manage patients presenting with complex and high-risk mental health conditions.
- Work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues to ensure coordinated and effective patient care.
- Provide specialist psychiatric advice and support to primary care professionals.
- Participate in the Consultant on-call rota.
- Provide clinical leadership, supervision and support to medical and wider clinical colleagues.
- Contribute to teaching, training and continuing professional development activities.
- Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement and service development.
- Contribute to research activity where appropriate.
- Support the effective clinical management and development of the wider Mental Health Service.
- Participate in professional appraisal and revalidation requirements.
Job Requirements:
- Full registration with the General Medical Council.
- MRCPsych or an equivalent recognised qualification.
- Inclusion on the Specialist Register, or equivalent, with CCT in General Adult Psychiatry.
- Wide and recent experience within General Adult Psychiatry.
- Experience managing high-risk and complex mental health presentations.
- Proven clinical leadership experience.
- Strong multidisciplinary team-working experience.
- Relevant teaching and continuing medical education experience.
- Evidence of commitment to clinical quality and continuous professional development.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Inpatient and community psychiatry experience would be advantageous.
- Previous Consultant-level experience would be beneficial.
- Experience of service development would be advantageous.
- Section 12 Approval is desirable but not essential.
Interested? Contact Jodie at jodie@itchyfeet.gg in the strictest confidence to find out more and to apply.
