Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry - England
Consultants in the Psychiatry of Older Adults are required for the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in England.
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services for approximately 725,000 people living in Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The trust also provides specialist services to children, forensic services to patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area, Whitby and Malton Hospitals and General Practice in Hull, Cottingham, Market Weighton and Bridlington. As a Teaching Trust, we work closely with our major academic partners, Hull York Medical School and Hull University, nurturing a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
The Old Age Psychiatry services continue to develop and are progressive in their outlook. The service has recently upgraded the inpatient facilities for patients with dementia. There is a requirement that the successful candidate will also undertake on call responsibilities on the specialist Consultant on-call rota for Old Age Psychiatry and Learning Disability.
Applicants should have full registration with the GMC, possess the MRCPsych UK or have an equivalent post-graduate qualification. They should be on the Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry, or be within 6 months of achieving CCT in Old Age Psychiatry. The ability to commute within the Trust’s geographical area, with access to an appropriate means of transport, is essential.
Please get in touch with Karen Diamond at Head Medical for an informal discussion - 0131 240 5261, karen@headmedical.com