Consultant Psychiatrist in Cambridge Adult Locality Team

This post is providing consultant clinical leadership and patient care in our community mental health team in South Cambridge. Alongside a team of substantive consultants, you will provide assessment and treatment for all patients in your area. Consultant psychiatrists work with a sector team to cover a geographical patch. They also have aligned staff from the award-winning Primary Care Mental Health Service (PCMH) team who support and assess patients in primary care and step patients up into the team when needed. Consultants are expected to form close working relationships with their allocated group of GPs and to provide support and supervision to the Primary Care Mental Health team in their area as well as to provide care to patients needing specialist mental health care.

Main duties of the job

• To provide Consultant input to community mental health team.
• To observe local and national employment directives with regard to managed medical personnel and ensure adherence to appropriate NHS and Trust policies.

Key Clinical Responsibilities

• The post holder will provide clinical leadership to the team.
• He or she will contribute to assessment of patients referred to the service for diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and support MDT members who carry out assessment of patients both within the teams and in primary care.
• They will help to facilitate accurate diagnosis and timely interventions so that treatment can be delivered in a timely manner and in accordance with the recovery model.
• He or she will also provide ongoing treatments to patients that are evidence based and supported by NICE guidelines maintaining a bio psychosocial approach.
• The post holder is required to maintain Section 12(2) status and Approved Clinician status and have a comprehensive awareness of Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Care Act legislation.
• He or she will be expected to participate in Mental Health Act assessments when possible and will be the Responsible Clinician for patients on supervised community treatment orders in the locality.
• The post holder is expected to be committed to a multidisciplinary approach to care and actively contribute to MDT meetings and formulation meetings and work in close collaboration with team members, care coordinators, other CPFT services and statutory agencies as required for the care of community patients.
• The locality consultant is expected to develop close working relationship with primary care, particularly General Practitioners, and support primary care clinicians to manage patients with mental health difficulties within the primary care setting where appropriate.
• The post holder will be expected to contribute to the collection of clinical information to ensure further service development and to enable audit, participate in clinical governance activities and contribute to the day-to-day management and to the overall service development agenda through collaboration with managerial and clinical colleagues.

The Trust is developing its services in line with modernised psychiatric practice. Consultants are actively involved in planning and developing services, and there will be opportunities to engage in quality improvement and service development work that is ongoing in the Trust.

Person specification

• Full GMC registration and licence to practice.
• MBBS or equivalent.
• Approved Clinician Status or eligible to attend training.
• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Specialty Registration in specialty.
• CCT in relevant specialty or within 6 months of attainment of Higher Training CCT at time of interview.
• Shall have equivalent experience and competencies recognised by GMC.

Experience

• Proven experience of good working relationships.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
• Experience of teaching and supervision of doctors in training.
• Publications in the field of psychiatry.

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

• Knowledge of policy and legislation relating to mental health.
• Ability to take a clinical lead.

Qualities and Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate/develop and understanding of service within the wider context of NHS Mental Health Services and PCTs.
• Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints.

Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.

We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:

• Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
• Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
• Children’s community services in Peterborough;
• Ground-breaking research.

We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.