Psychiatry

Our phenomenal success has much to do with our unique approach to psychiatric care. Unlike many other services, we don’t have a ‘pick-up-put-down’ approach to people, so our patients aren’t constantly referred from one person to another. Here, you see a person through a care pathway from start to finish. You’re able to watch your patient’s progress and then take pride when your hard work returns them to the real world, with a real life.

You’ll also have all the freedom and flexibility you need to develop your own ideas; strategies that will form new and effective care pathways. So whether you’re based in Brighton, in York or anywhere in between, you’re with patients for as long as they’re with us. It’s an approach that benefits careers as well as the people you care for.

Our Psychiatrists’ passion for helping patients is usually matched by their depth of knowledge. Typically, they’ve spent many years working with patients detained under the Mental Health Act, and they understand how to apply current practice in the area of patient intervention. They may have experience of specific patient groups (male, female, personality disorders, and substance or drug abuse) but they always share a desire to work with multi-disciplinary teams to develop effective interventions and care pathways. The kind of programmes that are fundamental to our success.

More specifically, our psychiatrists have a CST in forensic or adult psychiatry, Section 12 approval and experience within forensic, adult, rehabilitation or LD psychiatry. In addition, they usually take on RMO responsibility for a group of detained patients. Besides clinical and legal responsibilities for their care, they engage with Clinical Governance programmes and are active in multidisciplinary CPD programmes.

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