Associate Specialist

at  Elysium Healthcare

Do you want to work in a friendly, committed, and established service where your knowledge, experience and skills will be valued?
Join Farmfield Hospital as an Associate Specialist where you will provide a comprehensive medical support across acute male general adult service that provides a recovery role for those people suffering from a mental illness.
In this role you will provide clinical assessment, review and evaluation of people under the care and treatment of the hospital ensuring that all treatment plans are fully adhered to. You will also take a specific focus on physical health and risk management across the ward working closely with the ward manager, consultant and wider MDT.
You will be working alongside a full time Responsible Clinician, as well as the wider MDT of which they form an integral part. There is a regular multi-disciplinary Team meeting daily and weekly so that care and treatment is adequately planned. The team has dedicated administrative support which is based within the hospital as well as a physical health team.
Elysium Healthcare brings together a unique approach to the delivery of care where the patient is embedded in the heart of all aspects of hospital life.

• Clinical assessment, formulation and treatment
• Ensuring an adequate handover to colleagues
• Seeking collateral history from other professionals and family.
• Completing discharge letters/reports/s62 forms as required in a timely manner.
• 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.
• Providing prospective cover to other specialty doctors when they are on leave