Consultant Psychiatrist - East Core Team

Consultant Psychiatrist - East Core Team

We are really pleased to be offering this exciting full-time (10 PA) Consultant post in the Haringey East Core Team. This post has become available due to service redesign and financial investment as a result of the community transformation work. We welcome applications from candidates who wish to work part-time flexibly. Please feel free to make contact to discuss the post.

At North London NHS Foundation Trust we provide integrated mental health services to the people of North Central London, as well as some services regionally and nationally. We employ almost 6000 staff, which makes us one of the largest employers in our area. We provide our services to children, adults, and older people from over 20 sites. We support people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and wellbeing. We support them to get back into the community and to live as independently as they can. We aim to give people the skills they need to look after themselves with our support in the community. When they need a higher level of care, we provide that on our wards. The wards are found at Edgware Community Hospital; Barnet General Hospital (Springwell Centre); Chase Farm Hospital; and St. Ann's Hospital, Highgate East and Highgate West.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to provide joint clinical leadership for the East Core Team, working alongside 2 other Consultants. The post-holder will be expected to:

1. Contribute to the assessment of newly referred cases and formulate appropriate treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines.
2. Conclude medical reviews for those on the caseload including monitoring of patient mental, physical, and psychological wellbeing, assessment and review of needs, risk assessments and monitoring, assessing of response to medication, dosage adjustments and review of potential side effects of medication.
3. Manage community emergencies including home visits for those on the caseload.
4. Act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for the clients of the East Locality Team treated on a Community Treatment Order (CTO, S17A MHA) under your PCN.
5. Comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures.
6. Complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.
7. Supervise and facilitate learning to medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care.
8. Participate in the North Sector Consultant Psychiatrist on-call rota (1:32).
9. Participate in the weekly team meeting and undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.
10. Provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.
11. As a senior clinician, have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service line.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Open Dialogue Training
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Section 12 Approved or able to achieve within three months of appointment
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and lifelong learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Information Technology Experience & Skills

• Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet
• Experience in data gathering and management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum