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Are you an internal candidate? If yes, please apply through your employee space.CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY & PSYCHOLOGYBHB ensures the highest in quality health care through service excellence, education and leadership. We seek qualified, highly motivated, and experienced professionals to work in a supportive but demanding environment.Location: Mid-Atlantic Wellness InstituteThe successful candidate will assume clinical responsibility for the psychiatric care of clients in the respective Adult Psychiatric Clinical Programme (APCP) and Child & Adolescent Services (CAS). This will include diagnostic work ups, psychopharmacologic management, referral for psychotherapy and wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as needed, basic screening for medical co-morbidities and coordination of metabolic monitoring dependent upon treatment plans. Key responsibilities include:Clinical work will comprise of service needs but will include service to both inpatients and outpatient areas. The specific allocation will be determined by the Chief of Psychiatry. This will include clinical assessments of clients, formulation of treatment plans, facilitation and Resident supervision within care, and medical leadership during inpatient ward rounds along with management of out patient cases.Actively participating in program development, clinical audits, the development of quality assurance programmes and participate within the peer review process. Consultant psychiatric on-call duties as required include liaising psychiatric services to King Edward Memorial Hospital and after-hours coverage of the adult psychiatric services with case reviews out of hours as per departmental need.Preparation of court reports for professional report purposes upon request of the CourtsActing as the responsible Medical Officer for inpatients / outpatient within Community Mental Health Services (CMHS) in addition to detained inpatients and/or outpatients under Community Treatment ordersLiaising with the Mental Health Act Administrator to coordinate referrals to the second opinion regarding consent to treatment provisions of the Mental Health Act 1968Timely completion of Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) referrals, reports and participation in MHRT hearings as required in addition to mandated hearing participation for patients under conditions of Community Treatment Orders.Qualifications & Registration required: Board certification or equivalent Specialist Certification in country of training Requirement will be evaluated on its merits as part of the entire applications required for Bermuda Medical Council Registration. Must be eligible for specialist registration with the Bermuda Medical CouncilWork Type: Full Time Pre-employment substance abuse screening is mandatory for all successful candidates.