Consultant in Psychiatry (Perinatal)

Overview

Consultant in Psychiatry (Perinatal) – NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Salary £105,504 – £139,882 per annum. Closing today at 23:59. Location: Sheffield Perinatal Mental Health Service – Argyll House, Sheffield. Site: SHSC (Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust).

About us

At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city. We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of. Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: We work together, We are respectful and Kind, We are inclusive and We keep improving.

Job overview

You will be required to work with the Perinatal Mental Health (PNMH) Service’s multidisciplinary team, offering team & clinical leadership and facilitation to deliver safe and effective assessment and treatment plans for women and birthing people in the perinatal period, and their families. Our service, including our patient and staff population, is diverse, and we are looking for someone passionate about meeting the needs of the population of Sheffield. Along with the clinical and managerial leads, you will take oversight of the day-to-day clinical demands of the service, prioritising & responding to urgent & emergency work as well as conducting planned work with the team/patients.

For further information, please see the attached job description.

Main duties of the job

• Provide compassionate medical leadership in the Perinatal Mental Health Service, including frequent/regular meetings with clinical staff to plan/co-ordinate clinical workload.
• Attendance and leadership of MDT meetings.
• Attendance and leadership in team governance & service development processes.
• Contribution to collaborative care and risk management planning processes for relevant patients’ management, including regular liaison with practitioners within and outside of the service.
• Provision of trauma informed, evidence based, specialist perinatal medical/psychiatric assessments and reviews, to inform care planning and risk assessment/management, by regular clinic sessions & flexible use of clinical time.

For further information, please see the attached job description.

Working for our organisation

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust\’s Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be responsible for helping the Multi-Disciplinary teams in further developing evidence based, trauma-informed assessment and treatment pathways to offer women/birthing people and their families. We operate from biopsychosocial, and attachment orientated frameworks of understanding and medical leadership is a vital component of our service. Additionally, the successful candidate may wish to develop a role within medical leadership, medical education, quality improvement, research or a special clinical interest and such development would be supported by the trust and be negotiated with the individual candidate.

For further information, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

• 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.
• MRCPsych or equivalent

Experience

• Experience in General Adult Psychiatry. Some experience working with women in the perinatal period.
• Experience as a Consultant Psychiatrist in a Perinatal Mental Health Service.

Experience (cont.)

• Evidence of experience in medical audit and understanding of principles of clinical governance
• Experience networking and building collaborative working relationships across a range of stakeholders / other clinical specialisms to improve patient care pathways and experience.

We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access. Please think about your personal values and how these align with our Values when you are applying. Find out more about our organisation through our website.

We are a Disability Confident employer. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. When you apply you will have the opportunity to let us know if you require adjustments to be made, please contact us if you are not sure or if you require adjustments to the application process itself.

Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are:

• The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group
• The Disability Staff Network Group
• The Lived Experience Staff Network Group
• The Rainbow Staff Network Group
• The Staff Carers Staff Network Group
• The Women’s Staff Network Group

We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role. The cost of the DBS check must be met by the successful applicant(s).

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust\’s Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

When applying for this post you will be redirected to complete your application in our preferred applicant management system, Trac. If you are successfully offered a role, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.