Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
HSE Dublin and North East
Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
HSE Dublin and North East
This is a temporary appointment to HSE Dublin and North East Region on a Public Only Consultants’ Contract 2023 by the Health Service Executive.
The initial commitment for this post will be to Mental Health Services Cavan / Monaghan for 37 hours per week.
This post may be subject to restructuring in the future to facilitate the reorganisation of acute services in line with new clinical models of acute and community services. It is noted that the post must be congruent with the requirements of, and facilitate implementation of national health policy, the HSE’s National Clinical Programmes including commitment to deliver the relevant performance outcomes.
The purpose of the post is to provide leadership and to deliver expertise in General Adult Psychiatry for mental Health services in Cavan Monaghan.
Cavan Monaghan Area Mental Health Service is committed to promote, protect and
ensure the health and well-being of all citizens within Counties Cavan and Monaghan. It endeavours through its staff to provide recovery focused, comprehensive, integrated, inpatient and community-based services, which are responsive to the needs of individuals, families and communities.
The Cavan Monaghan Area Mental Health Service is delivered through specialist mental health multi-disciplinary teams from childhood to old age:
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service:
The Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service Team is a multidisciplinary service that prioritises the assessment and treatment of children up to the age of 16 presenting with mental health problems.
Adult Community Mental Health Service:
The Adult Community Mental Health Service is a multi-disciplinary service that provides mental health care to working age adults. Its aim is to provide an integrated, comprehensive, high quality, individualised system of care and support which meets the needs of people with acute mental health problems and their Carers.
Community Rehabilitation Service:
The Community Rehabilitation Service provides care to people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties who have complex needs. The core philosophy of the Adult Community Rehabilitation Service is to provide individualised care programmes for service users and carers, based on identified need and implemented as much as possible in a non-institutional setting.
Psychiatry of later life Service;
The Psychiatry of later Life Service provides care to people who develop mental health problems as they get older. (Over 65years). Its aim is to provide integrated, quality patient centred and community based services to patients and their families.
Cavan/Monaghan & Louth/Meath Mental Health Intellectual Disability Service
The Community Mental Health Intellectual Disability Team (CMHID) provides care for people over 18 years who have an intellectual disability and mental health problems.
Acute Inpatient Service: All acute admissions from Cavan Monaghan Mental Health Service are to the acute psychiatric admission unit which is located in Cavan General Hospital.
The successful candidate will be based in St Davnet’s Hospital in Monaghan.
He/she will be responsible for providing clinical leadership to the Monaghan Community Mental Health Team.
The Community Mental Health team for Monaghan consists of:
The successful candidate for the post in will share the consultant on call commitment with his/her colleagues. There will be a commitment to attend and partake in weekly postgraduate teaching sessions and to provide teaching in General Adult Psychiatry to undergraduates from Royal College of Psychiatrists in Ireland.
Please see Job Specification for this post attached below for further information:
Job Spec - DMPSPS02 Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
Professional Qualifications
Registration as a specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council in Ireland in the specialty of psychiatry.
Entry to competition / recruitment process and subsequent appointment
No candidate will be appointed as a Medical Consultant unless (s)he is registered as a Specialist in the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland.
The successful interviewee must be registered as a Specialist in the relevant specialty on the Specialist Division of the Register of Medical Practitioners maintained by the Medical Council of Ireland before taking up appointment. The candidate will be allowed a max of 180 calendar days from date of interview to secure this registration and produce evidence of special interest training where relevant.
Should the successful candidate not be registered as a Specialist at that time, the post may be offered to the next suitable candidate (or, in the case of HSE posts, the Public Appointments Service may choose not to recommend that candidate to the employer). Should no suitable candidate exist, a further recruitment process may be initiated.
Please note that appointment to and continuation in posts that require statutory registration is dependent upon the post holder maintaining annual registration in the relevant division of the register maintained by The Medical Council of Ireland.
Health
A candidate for and any person holding the post must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the post and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.
Character
A candidate for and any person holding the post must be of good character.
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