Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job Title: Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Contract: Substantive

Hours: Full time – 40 hours per week

Site: Kingston Hospital

We are seeking a full time consultant liaison psychiatrist for Kingston Hospital. This is an established post. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the planned relocation of the current consultant.

This post is for 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) per week.

This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and dynamic consultant psychiatrist to join this effective, friendly and rewarding service.

The Consultant Psychiatrist will work with the other Liaison Consultant, Dr Bruce Tamilson, to provide senior cover to the hospital wards and the Accident and Emergency Department, whilst working within and jointly clinically supervising the Liaison Team. During daytime hours, the team sees patients above 18 years in all wards and departments, including the Emergency Department and Clinical Decisions Unit.

The Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been well established over a number of years. The Older Adult Psychiatry specialists are integrated with the clinicians providing services to working age adults. This model ensures that colleagues in the general hospital have a single point of referral, and that expertise in old age psychiatry and general adult psychiatry are shared within the team. All liaison staff are expected to work with patients across the whole age range.

Main duties of the job

• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists.
• Overall responsibility for day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and recovery focused care delivered by the Team.
• Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
• Providing cross-cover for Consultant colleagues where necessary.
• Management of complex cases.
• Allocation of resources, in collaboration with the team manager, to service users and carers.
• Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory, voluntary and third sector partners.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ – we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Kingston Hospital is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

Please refer attached JDPS for detailed Job Description.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Primary Medical degree.
• Full GMC registration.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT.
• Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act.
• Experience of working in liaison psychiatry at Consultant/Higher Specialist trainee for at least a year.

Desirable

• MRCPsych, or equivalent. CCT in General Adult Psychiatry, or sub-specialty CCT in Liaison Psychiatry and significant experience of General Adult psychiatry at a senior level.
• Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DBT or MBT. Qualifications in change management and service development skills.
• Other higher degrees or further training relevant to the post.

KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved higher psychiatric training scheme.
• A detailed knowledge of main treatment approaches for severe mental illness including psychopharmacological interventions.

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management.
• Experience of teaching medical and non-medical staff, including those who may not have a formal qualification.

AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT

Essential

• Engage in continuing professional development, and join a Peer Group to gain approval for CPD done.
• Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit, quality improvement, and working with colleagues in the liaison psychiatry team, the acute trust, and managers.
• Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer’s groups, and local charities.

Desirable

• Experience of service planning and development.
• Experience of working with third sector partners.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

Desirable

• Evidence of participation in research, and outcomes of studies.
• Higher degree in research Completion of a research project and evidence of its dissemination.
• Publication in a peer reviewed journal.

TEACHING:

Essential

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry.

Desirable

• Teaching Qualification.
• Evidence of feedback good from students.

PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS:

Essential

• Ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Ability to inspire others.
• Ability to provide good clinical leadership.
• Ability to effect change.
• Ability to negotiate and collaborate with first, second and third sector organisations to identify shared agendas and meet common goals.
• Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from allied disciplines.
• Willingness to take on a fair share of Trustwide duties.
• Commitment to personal, team and service development.
• Ability to work co-operatively in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage and adapt to change.

Desirable

• Personal experience of mental illness.
• Personal experience of social distress.
• Evidence of helping others who have suffered physical, mental or social misfortune.
• Evidence of seeking feedback as a way of improving one’s skills.

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Kingston Hospital
Galsworthy Road
Kingston
KT2 7QB

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