Consultant Psychiatrist in AddictionsConsultant

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

An NHS Foundation Trust in Leeds is seeking a Trust Locum Consultant Psychiatrist to provide high-quality patient care through a community-based service for individuals aged 14-65. The role requires full GMC registration and specialist training in Psychiatry. Key responsibilities include regular clinical reviews and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team. The position offers a supportive work environment with various benefits including relocation packages and study leave.

Benefits

Excellent relocation package

Annual leave entitlement

On-site parking

Cycle to work scheme

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Study leave allowance

Qualifications

• Must be registered with the GMC.
• Specialist training in Psychiatry required.
• Proven communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical reviews for clients aged 14-65.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary community teams.
• Support the training of non-medical prescribers.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Experience in QIP work

Education

Full registration with the GMC

Higher specialist training in WAA Psychiatry

Job description

Job Overview

We are delighted to bring to advert the post of Trust Locum Consultant Psychiatrist at Aspire in the city of Leeds – a culturally diverse city with an estimated population of …

Aspire is a city-wide, community‑based First Episode Psychosis Service delivered by a specialist multidisciplinary team with input from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The service’s principles are engagement, hope and recovery. It supports people to find their own level of recovery, fostering hope for the future and encouraging individuals to lead an ordinary life in their community. The team works in collaboration with service users, carers and families using a bio‑psycho‑social model, delivering service at the most appropriate location and environment.

This post has become available due to the need for maternity leave cover for the current substantive post holder and will be available between Sept and Sept.

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? WE need you to help us achieve our goals – to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination – and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

About LYPFT

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT). We are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives, seeking to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

• Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
• Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
• Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high‑quality, evidence‑based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide.

Salary and Benefits

Working for our organisation LYPFT now offers a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants to the Trust. All newly appointed will be started on £, at pay point YC72 (point 04).

• Excellent relocation package (if applicable)
• Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of the Consultant contract
• On‑site parking
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits
• 6 employee assistant (PA) post plus a 1% category B availability for out‑of‑hours on‑call duties

We want to understand what flexibility means to you. Do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

What you will get

• Supportive and friendly colleagues
• Personalised coaching and mentoring
• Weekly academic teaching
• Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including possibility to become an appraiser and educational/training development opportunities
• Annual medical leadership development day
• Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £ per annum)

Main Duties

Aspire provides a specialist service to people aged between 14 and 65 in Leeds and has three main pathways: a full caseload for up to three years, an extended assessment for up to 3 months and the new “At Risk Mental State” (ARMS) pathway.

• Regular clinical reviews
• Flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews
• Take on the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA care
• Complex prescribing and review
• Effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals and statutory organisations
• Work intensively and assertively with the client group
• Contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community team
• Collaborate with other services within the Trust
• Provide professional leadership
• Provide one hour a week protected clinical supervision to trainees in the service for which you are the clinical supervisor
• Work jointly with the Clinical Leadership Structure, Operations Manager, Head of Operations and other agencies to ensure the service is delivered successfully
• Support non‑medical prescribers in training and afterwards

Qualifications

• Full registration with the GMC
• Higher specialist training in WAA Psychiatry
• Excellent communication skills
• Track record in QIP work