SAS doctors

Overview

EPUT is seeking to appoint two compassionate and dedicated Specialty Doctor Adult Community, CRS & Mental Health Liaison to join our dynamic mental health team at the Lakes, Colchester. There are two vacancies available to apply. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with experienced consultants in delivering high quality psychiatric care across community in the North East Essex area.

The post-holder is required to work independently and accountably as part of a team of clinicians offering Mental Health Services. Work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians, and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering great mental health services that deliver a 7-day-a-week, 24 hours a day service for 365 days a year.

On-call context and general duties are to be conducted in alignment with Trust values and the GMC’s Good Medical Practice and Nolan Principles (1995). SAS doctors are required to seek the agreement of the Trust through the Clinical Director for roles and responsibilities which fall under this category. All duties will be acknowledged through the job planning process.

• Conduct out-patient assessment and reviews for patients in the patch.
• Attend MDT meetings twice weekly.
• Attend Allocations meetings as required.
• Carry out home visits.
• Attend to urgent clinical issues for patients.
• Administrative work related to these activities.
• Supervise and support Trainee Doctors if appropriate.
• Work closely with primary care nurses (PCN workers).
• Work with Multidisciplinary team.

• Important note:
  
  please ensure that as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
• As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
• Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.
• The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
• Important Notice:
  Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 requires vaccination for roles deployed to a CQC registered care home; this is a pre-employment check.
• Please note:
  
  staff at risk within the organisation may be prioritised for alternative employment; if something is considered suitable alternative employment, the post may be withdrawn.

Our Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients across community health, mental health and learning disability services in Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment.

Our Vision: “To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our

Purpose:

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values:
We Care, We Learn, We Empower.

Our strategic objectives include delivering safe, high quality integrated care services; enabling staff to be the best they can; collaborating with partners to improve services; and helping communities to thrive.

EPUT is looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Open, Compassionate and Empowering. We offer a range of benefits including Season Ticket Loan, NHS staff discounts, excellent training facilities, annual leave purchase/sell scheme, opportunities to work bank shifts, and salary sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work.