Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry

NHS; Luton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated consultant psychiatrist to lead their Psychiatry Liaison Service. This role involves providing clinical and managerial leadership, ensuring high-quality assessments and management for patients with mental disorders. The successful candidate will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, support junior doctors, and drive service development initiatives. With opportunities for teaching and research, this position offers a chance to make a significant impact in mental health care. If you are passionate about improving patient outcomes and leading a dynamic team, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered with GMC and on the specialist register.
• Experience in Acute Adult Psychiatry at SpR or consultant level.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive assessment and management of mental health issues.
• Lead the multidisciplinary team and ensure quality care delivery.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Mental Health Act Application

Risk Assessment and Management

Service Development

Liaison Psychiatry

Teaching and Training

Education

GMC Registration

Royal College of Psychiatrists Membership

Higher Degree (MD/PhD)

Job description

The consultant psychiatrist will provide clinical and managerial leadership in the Psychiatry Liaison Service (PLS). The successful applicant will join two substantive consultants to provide consultant leadership to the team.

The workload in PLS is variable. The consultant would be expected to attend handovers and support the clinical lead to allocate the workload according to clinical and service need.

The team receive 300+ referrals per month. The consultant psychiatrist sees complex patients as required by the multidisciplinary team either in the ED or on wards and provides clinical advice and supervision to the MDT members and junior doctors.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the liaison service in multidisciplinary assessment, treatment and management of patients with mental disorders as envisaged in NICE Guidelines. The post holder will liaise with the other relevant organizations eg Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust ensuring a seamless service.

They will provide consultant leadership to the psychiatric liaison service, including junior doctors, and students.

They will ensure that patients receive a comprehensive assessment and provide a formulation and management plan for patients. They will support the team to ensure that the national KPI targets for liaison psychiatry are met.

They will support the ongoing relationship with the acute Trust and provide education and training to acute Trust colleagues.

Opportunities will be available for quality improvement and service development work in addition to research.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

1. Provide consultant leadership to the psychiatry liaison team:

Team Manager

Deputy Team Manager

Fully staffed Nursing team

Full time staff grade doctor

Junior Doctors on rotation

Clinical Psychologist

Students from nursing, medical and paramedic backgrounds

2. Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management of issues relating to mental and physical health for acutely ill adult inpatients.

3. Undertake all work in the context of the recovery approach which is emphasised across the Trust, placing the service user at the centre of planning and decision making.

4. Attend the Handover in the Liaison service to maintain good communication with other clinicians.

5. The liaison service has a KPI targets and a requirement to meet them. The post holder will work to ensure the targets are met.

6. Provide support and training to other health care professionals and support service users through the care pathway as required whilst working with other teams in the hospital and the community setting.

7. Lead on the delivery of high quality care in all settings and be mindful of quality targets set by the Trust and those set nationally.

8. Have liaison with the linked inpatient adult mental health services and community mental health teams when indicated.

9. Develop an expertise and knowledge of local services for people with mental health problems.

10. Provide appropriate clinical supervision and training for junior medical staff and lead the multidisciplinary team.

11. Take part in mandatory Trust audit programmes and also develop local relevant audit cycles to improve the function of the community rehabilitation team.

12. Actively participate in the Trusts clinical and strategic development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with GMC
• On the GMC specialist register/ within 6 months of CCT
• Approval under Section 12(2) Mental Health Act and Approved Clinician Status
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• A higher degree e.g. MD or PhD

Knowledge and experience

• Experience of clinical work in Acute Adult Psychiatry at SpR, SASG or consultant level within the last 3 years
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
• Robust experience of working with severe and enduring mental illness and risk assessment, management
• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Experience in liaison psychiatry

Organisational skills and abilities

• Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
• Experience of team /service leadership
• Formal leadership and management training

Clinical skills and supervision

• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Commitment to clinical governance
• Experience in supervising trainee doctors and SAS doctors

Teaching

• Experience in teaching junior staff
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals

Research and audit

• Experience of research work
• Audit and quality improvement experience
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Compressed hours