Consultant in Older Adult CMHT Psychiatry in Shipley

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older adults? Join our dynamic Community Mental Health Team as a Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry, based at New Mill, Saltaire. You'll provide medical leadership, work alongside a skilled multidisciplinary team, and deliver high-quality care for patients with complex mental health needs.

This permanent, full-time post offers excellent support, including dedicated admin assistance, IT equipment, and opportunities for professional development. You'll play a key role in service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement, while enjoying a collaborative and supportive working environment.

If you're committed to compassionate care, innovation, and teamwork, we'd love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job:

• The role involves comprehensive clinical responsibilities, including assessing new referrals, conducting medical reviews, and participating in multidisciplinary meetings.
• The consultant will undertake home visits when necessary, contribute to case reviews, and provide expert advice to GPs, liaison teams, and hospitals.
• Additional duties include preparing reports for mental health tribunals, supporting research projects, supervising nurse prescribers, and participating in emergency assessments as part of the on-call rota.
• The post also encompasses involvement in teaching, clinical audit, service evaluation, and maintaining accurate clinical records, ensuring high standards of patient care and professional practice.

We have a strong focus on your continued professional development, including special interests, whether that's a clinical educator, researcher or leader. We want to be the best place to work and your wellbeing is our priority, with a supportive and accessible senior leadership team, and access to a range of health and wellbeing support.

From the buzzing city life of Bradford to the tranquil Yorkshire Dales, our location has something for everyone. The area offers a high standard of living at an affordable price, with good schools. Over 60 per cent of the Bradford district is rural and Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven feature stunning landscapes, picturesque villages and iconic landmarks, including the Three Peaks. Bradford district is one of the most multicultural in Britain with over 100 languages. Its rich architectural heritage includes the UNESCO world heritage site of Saltaire.

Person Specification:

• Training & Qualifications: Essential: Certificate of Completion of Training in General Adult Psychiatry (ST6 trainees should be within six months of attainment at the time of the interview) or CESR equivalent. Inclusion on the Specialist Register or eligibility for inclusion. Section 12 (2) MHA 1983 approval and Approved Clinician.
• Knowledge & Skills: Essential: Effective leadership skills, ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users and their families/carers, ability to supervise junior staff, awareness of the funding arrangements in the NHS and recent NHS developments, ability to interpret published research and to apply research findings to clinical practice.
• Experience: Essential: Experience in Older Age Psychiatry, excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective, experience to a level allowing recognition of trainer status by the Royal College of Psychiatrist, experience in teaching undergraduates & postgraduates, evidence of experience in medical audit and understanding of principles of clinical governance.
• Other: Essential: Ability to exercise effective leadership in a multi-disciplinary team, understanding of importance of multi-disciplinary service provision and the care programme approach, understanding of and ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users to promote recovery, sensitivity to needs of different ethnic and minority groups, awareness of gender issues in the service provision, highly effective communication skills.

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.