Locum Consultant Psychiatrist 5PA post (Colne House, Watford)

Locum Consultant Psychiatrist 5PA post (Colne House, Watford) Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

This post is vacant as the existing post holder has moved into a different post outside the trust. This post involves providing clinical leadership to one of the South-West Community Mental Health Teams (based in Watford) providing diagnostic assessments and treatment to service users with severe, complex, and high-risk psychiatric conditions. The team covers two borough localities in South West Hertfordshire - Watford and Three Rivers, with a population of around 200,000, and Hertsmere borough locality with a population of around 100,000. The post holder will be based in Colne House in Watford. Clinical work such as outpatient clinics will take place at Colne House but may also take place in other Trust locations or community destinations such as service user's homes, prisons, or police stations.

Main duties of the job

The team expects to receive on average 30-40 new referrals a week. All team members (apart from support workers) carry roughly equivalent numbers of cases as care co-ordinators, between 30 and 35 patients. The consultant psychiatrist is expected to carry a compact caseload of the most complex and unstable cases and will be available at short notice to provide consultation and advice to other team members, although they are not required to act as care co-ordinator. The consultant currently has 2 patients admitted to inpatient wards and 4 patients on CTO in the community. The team has a caseload of around 1500 service users split between CPA and standard levels of care, including medical outpatient clinic caseload. The post holder will carry an outpatient clinic caseload of around 80 service users and will work with 1 full-time specialty doctor who requires monthly supervision.

Job responsibilities

1. Manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed by consultant colleagues and the medical director.
2. Ensure that junior medical staff operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
3. Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
4. Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
5. Participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and the whole mental health service.
6. Participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
7. Attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust and the team, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme.
8. Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and abide by professional codes of conduct.
9. Participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager.
10. Comply with the Trust's agreed policies, procedures, standing orders, and financial instructions.
11. Liaise with primary care colleagues, including providing advice to Primary Care Nurses and ARRS workers dedicated to the Primary Care Network (PCN).

Person Specification Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Relevant higher degree, e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications.

ELIGIBILITY

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry by CESR route; OR within six months of achieving CCT/CESR at the time of interview.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
• Section-12/Approved clinician approval.

CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in General Adult psychiatry.
• Experience of close collaborative working with social care and other agencies.
• Experience of working with service users who have complex needs within General Adult psychiatry.
• Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
• Excellent degree of medical knowledge in relation to Psychiatry.

ACADEMIC SKILLS LIFELONG LEARNING

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Holds a full valid driving license and access to a car (unless you have a disability as defined by the Disability Discrimination Act 1995).
• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflected on the 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.
• Experience of organising and overseeing psychotherapy training program for psychiatry trainees.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; therefore, 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.

Salary: £105,504 to £139,882 per annum (pro rata if part-time).