Specialty Doctor in Forensic Psychiatry

Secure Services are seeking a specialty doctor in psychiatry to join our large medical team. Together we provide forensic psychiatric care for patients from across the South West. Our service comprises 3 low secure wards, 7 medium secure wards and three community teams. We work in multi-disciplinary teams comprising occupational therapists, social workers, psychologists, arts therapists and nurses. Our service is well supported by a primary care team including practice nurses, GPs, podiatry, physiotherapy, dentistry and dietetics. The service and wider organisation offers lots of opportunities for continued professional development and career progression. The post-holder will have protected SPA time and be supported to take on leadership, audit, quality improvement or teaching projects.

Main duties of the job

As the post holder , duties would include;

To provide, under supervision, day-to-day medical care for a caseload of inpatients within a secure serv...