Specialty Doctor in Intellectual Disability Psychiatry

NHS Lanarkshire

Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry

This post is for a Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry. The base for this post is located in Kirklands Hospital, Bothwell. The clinical commitment is to provide outpatient Specialty Doctor Input working with two Consultants within North and South Lanarkshire. based in Kirklands hospital. The post holder will also be providing input into a three bedded Low Secure Learning Disability Unit based in Kirklands hospital

This is a full-time post; however, applications are also welcomed from candidates who may be interested in working on a part-time basis.

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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Khalid Nawab, Clinical Director on or Dr Adam Brodie, Associate Medical Director on .

For any application queries, please contact Lynn Cliens, HR Assistant or via medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Interview Date: 30^th May 2024

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential childrens setting/secure unit.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

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