Consultant Psychiatrist Community Recovery Team South

London Source: WhatJobs
£90,000–£110,000

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job Overview

The Community Recovery Teams (CRT) in Newham are expanding from six whole time consultants to eight. This is one of two newly created post in an expanded service. The post offers a rare opportunity to work in a continuity model, working across both inpatients and the community providing greater continuity of care.

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients, by delivering the

Following Interventions

  • Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients’ capabilities, strengths and resilience
  • Mental state examination
  • Clinical diagnosis
  • Initiation and reviews of pharmacological treatments
  • To lead multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and management of individual’s risk.
  • Physical health assessments
  • Referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services)
  • Liaison with GP, community and forensic services.
  • Reviews of clinical progress and care plans
  • Assessment of readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning.
  • Safeguarding planning processes
  • Consultation and liaison with families and carers.
  • Liaison with the criminal justice system, police, Courts and probation when required for the care

and management of patients.

Working for our organisation

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients, by delivering the

Following Interventions

  • Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account

patients’ capabilities, strengths and resilience

  • Mental state examination
  • Clinical diagnosis
  • Initiation and reviews of pharmacological treatments
  • To lead multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and management of individual’s risk.
  • Physical health assessments
  • Referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services)
  • Liaison with GP, community and forensic services.
  • Reviews of clinical progress and care plans
  • Assessment of readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning.
  • Safeguarding planning processes
  • Consultation and liaison with families and carers.
  • Liaison with the criminal justice system, police, Courts and probation when required for the care

and management of patients.

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
  • Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months (older adult or dual older adult/adult)
  • Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
  • MRCPsych or equivalent
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

Desirable criteria

  • Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

  • Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
  • Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
  • Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery

Desirable criteria

  • Formal leadership/management training

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

  • Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult and older adult mental health service
  • An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation
  • Understanding of social care structures relevant to older adults
  • Excellent knowledge of mental health and capacity law, in particular application of the MCA 2005

Clinical experinece

Essential Criteria

  • Excellent experience of operation of older adult mental health service
  • Assessment and treatment of a wide range of mental health and psychological disorders with evidence-based interventions
  • Assessment of cognitive impairment and diagnosis of dementia and delirium

Desirable criteria

  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
  • Experience of contributing and/or leading on service planning, development and management

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

East London NHS Foundation Trust has achieved its third consecutive ‘Outstanding’ rating from the Care Quality Commission; the first Community and Mental Health Trust to achieve this rating for a third time. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other Reasons To Apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £8,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

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