Locum Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

We are seeking a part time 0.6WTE Consultant Psychiatrist for Merton Crisis Home Treatment Team. This is an established post. The vacancy has arisen due to current established full time post being split into 2 part time posts as the current postholder is reducing his clinical hours to take on additional managerial responsibilities.

This post is for 6 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 Home Treatment Team Consultant, Dr Razvan Gutu, to provide senior cover to the Merton Home Treatment Team. The HTT provides an alternative to admission and provides early discharge from hospital support for adults living in the Merton area. The catchment area is diverse and includes a few areas of deprivation and relative affluence. The aim of the team is to provide an alternative to admission to hospital and to help facilitate early discharge from hospital.

If you are a dynamic and enthusiastic consultant psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding Approved Clinician and S12 approval under the Mental Health Act, or a specialist trainee within six months of inclusion on the Specialist Register, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with, and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their service line.
• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the 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.
• Taking a key role in inpatient bed management through regular liaison with inpatient consultants.
• Assuming Consultant responsibility for patients while they are under the HTT.
• Providing cross-cover for the 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 and voluntary and third sector partners.
• Participating in care-pathways meetings with Inpatient and Community services.
• Participating in local borough Risk Forum meetings.
• Being an ambassador for the HTT externally.

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

The post will be managerially and professionally responsible to the Associate Clinical Director for Crisis Teams of the Acute and Urgent Care Service Line.

The Consultant will have Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act and Approved Clinician status (or eligibility).

The Consultant will spend some time providing assessments, reviews and treatment/aftercare recommendations. He/she will also jointly supervise a weekly caseload of an average of 30-40 patients seen by other members of the Home Treatment Team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary Medical degree.
• Full GMC registration.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register 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.

Desirable

• MRCPsych, or equivalent.
• Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry.
• CCT in General Adult Psychiatry.
• 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 in a peer-reviewed journal.

Teaching

Essential

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry.

Desirable

• Teaching Qualification.
• Evidence of good feedback 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

Wilson Hospital
Cranmer Road
Mitcham
CR4 4TP

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