Consultant Psychiatrist in AMH Community

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Peterlee; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in Durham invites a Consultant to join the Easington Mental Health Team, delivering care to adults with mental illness in hospital and community settings.

You will lead the team, participate in daily huddles and decision meetings, perform assessments, develop treatment plans, supervise prescribing and reviews, and ensure respectful, rights-based care.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team and provide committed, proactive leadership in patient care.
• Participate in Daily Huddle and decision meetings to shape management plans.
• Ensure evidence-based prescribing and monitoring of pharmacological treatments and ECT where applicable.
• Contribute to formulation and complex patient review meetings and provide clinical advice.
• Respect patient rights and dignity, consider cultural needs, and engage families and carers as needed.

Job description

This is a replacement post for a full time Consultant working in Easington Mental Health Team. Easington treatment and intervention Mental Health Team serves Adults aged 18 upwards who present with a mental illness. The team is integrated with Durham County Council and provides statutory care act assessments alongside mental health assessment. Patients with an organic illness are managed by Service for Older People. The service operates Monday to Friday between the hours of 9 to 5, with flexible working to see patients from 8am to 6pm. The team caters to an area of practice in Co Durham region. The team is based at Merrick House Easington, with a large community base. The Team provides secondary mental health service input for all mental health conditions for working age adult population. Patients are seen both at base and in the local community. The team operates in the new community hub and intervention model. Initial assessments carried by senior staff.

Patients receive support

either in hub or intervention according to needs and complexity of presentation.

The team provides specialist support to patients with significant mental health difficulties such as mood disorders/ schizophrenia/ bipolar disorder/ personality disorder and adult neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD/ Autism.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of post holder

• The Consultant will provide committed, proactive and responsible leadership working with the team.
• The Consultant will attend the Daily Huddle and daily decision meetings where decisions are made about patient care and the management plan and to promote the safety and well-being of the patients The Consultant will undertake assessments for new patients and follow up and review patients, the Consultant will also provide a diagnosis and treatment plan.
• The Consultant will ensure evidence-based prescribing and monitoring of pharmacological treatment and ECT.
• The Consultant will attend and fully contribute to formulation meetings and Complex patients review meetings
• The Consultant will provide consultation and advice on a daily basis to the team, and review patients as required
• The consultant is expected to respect the rights and the dignity of patients and to consider the individual and cultural needs of patients and work with families and carers in the best interest of the patient.
• The Consultant will be expected to have familiarity with all important, relevant legislation affecting the Adult Mental Health population.

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).