Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

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Job summary

A mental health trust in London seeks a Consultant Psychiatrist for inpatient services. You will lead a multi-disciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care for adult patients. The ideal candidate holds a medical degree, is GMC registered, and possesses strong clinical skills and leadership capabilities. The role offers a full-time position with opportunities for professional development and support in a diverse work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support up to £10,000

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education or clinical research.
• Experience in acute adult mental health services.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant leadership and supervision to the inpatient team.
• Offer consultations and assessments for hospital admissions.
• Coordinate cover arrangements for patients under RC responsibility.

Skills

Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

Excellent clinical skills

Ability to manage clinical complexity

Good written and oral communication skills

Ability to contribute to service planning

Education

Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent

Fully registered with the GMC

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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 overview

The role includes providing the RC cover, focusing on consultant level assessment of any new admissions that have taken place, actively supporting an effective interface between the ward, HTT and the community teams to facilitate safe early discharges from the inpatient unit, actively engaging with the relevant community teams, providing clinical leadership for the MDT on the ward, leading ward and management rounds and undertaking relevant reviews of inpatients, supporting the bed management processes and maintaining high quality care for the patients on the ward.

Joshua ward has a full multi-disciplinary team. In addition to the inpatient consultant psychiatrist the medical team consists of:

• 8 WTE higher trainee doctor (0.2 working in the community team)
• 1 WTE core trainee
• 0.8 to 1 WTE GPVTS trainee (depending on rotations)

The ward has an average of 15 admissions per month. There is management support from the Associate Clinical Director (Dr Victoria Cohen), who reports to the Clinical Director (Dr Olivier Andlauer).

Main duties of the job

This is a full-time post. The post-holder will provide consultant leadership, supervision, and support to the inpatient team. They will work with the ward manager and modern matron to deliver high quality inpatient treatment to the population of male adults living in West Hackney and who require inpatient admission.

They will contribute to the overall management and service development of Joshua Ward. The post-holder will coordinate leave and cover arrangements for the patients they have RC responsibility for, with the other inpatient consultants, and occasionally with community consultant psychiatrists. We are keen to develop clinical and medical leadership.

The post-holder will:

• Contribute as a senior member of staff to service development within Joshua Ward
• Offer consultations, assessments & appropriate treatments to people living in City & Hackney and requiring a hospital admission.
• Develop close links with other Acute Wards and Community teams, including newly established Neighbourhoods Mental Health Teams.
• Work with service users to develop service user input to service delivery and development.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues, notably resident doctors.
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and the implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent
• Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act) and eligible to be temporarily (whilst acting-up) on the register of Approved Clinicians (MHA, 2007).
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to contribute to service planning, development, and management
• Formal leadership/management training

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult mental health service.
• An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation

Clinical Experience

• Excellent experience of operation of acute adult mental health service
• Assessment and treatment of a wide range of mental health and psychological disorders with evidence-based interventions
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service – including good experience of work in acute mental health services, and/or experience of working in Early Intervention in Psychosis service
• Experience of contributing and/or leading on service planning, development and management

Teaching

• Ability to deliver teaching to graduates and undergraduates in medical and non-medical disciplines
• Excellent presentation skills
• Formal training in teaching methods

Research

• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Research interest
• Research or audit published in peer-reviewed journals

Other

• An understanding and experience of working with service users from a socially deprived, multi-ethnic area
• Adequate health to fulfil the responsibilities of the post
• Able to travel between sites
• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Making Things Better

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

Our Community

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

Aiming High

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

Staff and Service Users United

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.

Diversity

ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.

Other reasons to apply

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

What Next?

If you like the sound of ELFT, don’t waste a moment. We sometimes close adverts early if there is a high response, so apply now!

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