Consultant Psychiatrist post in the Urgent Care Assessment Team (UCAT) South, within Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The role centres on rapid mental health assessments and intensive, time-limited home treatment for people in crisis, with a focus on keeping them out of acute inpatient care. The service runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the post requires Section 12 approval to act as Responsible Clinician. Candidates need MRCPsych or equivalent, full GMC registration and at least six years' postgraduate experience.
What the job involves
- Undertake mental health assessments following referrals from recognised sources, 24 hours a day, seven days a week
- Respond to the needs of the home treatment caseload
- Act as gatekeeper to acute inpatient care
- Provide rapid, intensive, time-limited and flexible interventions for service users, families and carers
- Address the social issues surrounding a crisis from the outset
- Engage service users assertively
- Provide practical problem-solving help
- Administer and supervise medication
- Learn from crisis
- Link service users' care to further continuing care
- Facilitate early discharge from hospital where admission has already been necessary
- Integrate fully into the Northamptonshire mental health systems and the community
What’s required
Qualifications
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry, or on the Specialist Register, or eligible for inclusion within six months
Registration & licences
- Full GMC registration
- Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act and able to act as Responsible Clinician
- In good standing with the GMC, with no warnings or conditions on practice
Experience
- Minimum of six years postgraduate experience, including three years as SpR in an approved training post, or equivalent (part may be in a post of equivalent responsibility and training)
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels
- Presents complex information to varied audiences, including courts and tribunals
- Motivates and develops junior medical staff and MDT members
- Balances individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust
- Understanding of the political and financial framework within which services operate
- Understanding of the use of security in psychiatric treatment and of working with damaged and disturbed patients
Other
- Demonstrates commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working
- Works independently and as part of an MDT, and forms good working relationships with peers
- Works under pressure
- Willing to undertake training, CPD and in-house training
Nice to have
- Additional postgraduate qualifications or endorsement in rehabilitation psychiatry
- Publication of original research
- Management training
What’s offered
- £40,000 welcome bonus, paid over the first two years in post
- Wider benefits package set out in the candidate pack
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
