Service Description

About the Brooker Centre

Lectures

SHO Competency

Crash Call Procedure

Liaison Psychiatry

Preventing Violence

Managing disturbed In-patients

Clinical Competence for SHOs

  Taken from the MRCPsych Study Manual (2nd edition 2000)

The following list of skills and competencies is the result of a brainstorm by senior consultants and academic staff. These are the skills and competencies that we would expect an SHO to learn and foster over the course of their general training.

 ·         Ability to assess a patient and produce a safe and relevant management plan.

·         Ability to assess risk of suicide.

·         Ability to assess risk of dangerousness to others.

·         Familiarity with, and appropriate use of, the Mental Health Act.

·         Management of a case of severe depressive disorder.

·         Management of a case of first episode psychosis.

·         Management of a case of schizophrenia.

·         Management of a case of alcohol withdrawal, delirium and /or dependence.

·         Management of a case of substance abuse, delirium and/or dependence.

·         Management of a case of bipolar affective disorder.

·         Safe management of the disturbed patient.

·         Assessment of and management of a case of dementia.

·         Familiarity with, and appropriate use of, a modern classification system.

·         Management of a case of anxiety disorder.

·         Management of a case of obsessive compulsive disorder.

·         Management of a case of post-traumatic stress disorder.

·         Assess a patient appropriately for and referral of a patient to a specialist psychotherapy service.

·         Assess a patient appropriately for and referral of a patient to a specialist forensic service.

·         Assess a patient appropriately for and referral of a patient to a specialist child and adolescent service.

·         Assess a patient appropriately for and referral of a patient to a specialist learning disability service.

·         See a short-term patient for a supervised form of psychotherapy.

·         See a long-term patient for a supervised form of psychotherapy.

·         Safely and effectively administer a course of ECT.

·         Familiarity with collateral legislation with relevance to psychiatric practice such as the Children’s Act, Homicide Act, Care in the Community Act, Criminal Procedure [Insanity and Unfitness to Plead] Act.

·         Familiarity with, and appropriate use of, the leadership role in the Multidisciplinary Team.

·         Familiarity with relevant modern-day business and management techniques.

·         Familiarity with management guidelines and systems such as the Care Program Approach

·         Safely practice breakaway techniques and approved self-defence skills.

·         Devise protocols for clinical audit and also for academic research.

·         Ability to liaise appropriately with statutory bodies such as the Mental Health Act Commission.

·         Ability to appear and speak at Mental Health Act Tribunals, where appropriate.

·         Ability to interview patients for, and write, satisfactory legal and official reports.

·         Satisfactorily perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

·         Familiarity with IT systems to the benefit of patient care and research skills.

·         Ability to liaise effectively, courteously and appropriately with professional colleagues involved in the multidisciplinary care of patients.

·         Ability to introspect about and gain insight from the doctor-patient relationship.

·         Ability to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and groups.

·         Ability to teach effectively.

Ben Green,

Friday, March 19, 1999

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Dr Ben Green , Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool - Consultant Psychiatrist
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