Consultant Psychiatrist in Inpatient General Adult Psychiatry - AAU

Job overview

*There is a generous recruitment premium attached to this post of £40K in addition to the standard relocation expenses (T&Cs apply).

The appointee will provide Consultant leadership and psychiatric input into the acute inpatient unit at the Cavell centre. They will work with the multidisciplinary team and establish good liaison and links with the community teams. Four sessions are protected for special interest to be negotiated in job planning. These may include specific management or teaching responsibility or research.

Main duties of the job

This post consists of 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) which includes 6 PAs of direct clinical care and 4 PAs for supporting activities and CPD. The consultant will be responsible for the care of patients admitted to the inpatient unit. The consultant will also work with well-established services alongside other medical and non-medical colleagues. The appointed consultant will provide strong leadership to the teams and drive further service developments in acute care. Junior doctor support in the form of Specialty doctors, higher trainee or a core psychiatric trainee is provided.

The successful candidate will be working alongside consultant colleagues in the North of the County. The ward is co-located on the Cavell Centre with three other Psychiatric Inpatient Units and the Crisis Home Treatment Team; all of which have substantive consultant Psychiatrists in post. These consultants form a key part of a multiprofessional clinical leadership team across the Wards at the Cavell Centre which provide a source of mutual professional support and collaborative working.

The post will involve close working relationship with modern matron, nurse specialists and team managers. A consultant mentor is offered to all new consultants as part of a well established package of support and engagement with the wider consultant body across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant Psychiatrist is a key clinical leader for the Team. Their role includes:

• Represent the team to other Consultants and management.
• Clinical areas:

o   Diagnosis

o   Bio psychosocial approach to treatment

o   Evidence based interventions

o   Legal issues

o   Boundary setting

• Clinical Leadership: o   Enabling/Encouraging other team members o   Strategic planning and development o   Available to the team both to individuals and the team as a whole o   Active team member o   Attend regular reviews o   Work towards high team morale
• Education: o   Medical students from Cambridge University o   Junior Doctors o   Other disciplines
• Participate in: o   Evaluation o   Audit o   Research o   Purpose and functioning of the team
• A source of wisdom to the team

The post holder will:

• Work in accordance with the New Ways of Working initiative for Consultants, attend regular team meetings such as MDT meetings and formulation meetings to discuss clinical issues with team members, care coordinators, inpatient doctors and other statutory agencies as required for the care of community patients.
• Work closely with other consultant colleagues to ensure that the patient journey is as smooth as possible.
• Provide clinical leadership and actively liaise with general practitioners, psychiatrists and other hospital specialists, statutory and non-statutory agencies, whenever relevant to the care and treatment of patients.
• Be committed to a multidisciplinary approach to care.
• Use evidence-based interventions at all times.
• Offer a consistent response to referrers/service users regardless of origin of referral in a timely fashion.
• Offer an accurate diagnosis and timely interventions so that intensive treatment can be delivered to present chronicity and dependency on psychiatric services, in accordance with the recovery model.
• Attend Mental Health Act assessments as requested for relevant patients.
• Act as the Responsible Clinician for inpatients including attending Tribunals, as necessary.
• Participate in the development and maintenance of care programmes for patients.
• Supervise junior and middle grade doctors in the team.
• Participate in the teaching programmes of the multidisciplinary team.
• Contribute to the collection of clinical information to ensure further service development and to enable audit.
• Work closely with consultant colleagues to contribute to the provision of appropriate Consultant cover for daytime, 9 am to 5 pm, (working days) and for periods of annual/study/special leave.
• Participate in the on-call Consultant rota primarily for advice; Consultants are on the 3rd Tier of on call.
• Participate in clinical governance and teaching activities..
• Contribute to the day-to-day management and to the overall service development agenda through appropriate involvement with managerial and clinical colleagues.
• Undergo annual appraisal and fulfil the requirements of continuing professional development (CPD) in order to meet the criteria for revalidation by the General Medical Council.
• Agree a job plan with the Clinical Director.
• Attend Trust Wide Medical Advisory Groups.