Consultant Psychiatrist in MHSOP Community

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major mental health trust is seeking a psychiatrist to provide a community-based psychiatric service for older people. The role involves clinical leadership, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, and the responsibility for care aspects in the community sector. Successful candidates will have significant experience in mental health services and be ideally positioned to contribute to patient care in York and North Yorkshire.

Qualifications

• Hold Responsible Clinician status as defined within the Mental Health Act.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in providing community-based mental health services for older people.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the West older people's team.
• Work jointly with colleagues across disciplines for comprehensive patient care.
• Assist in planning and monitoring older people's mental health services.

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for providing a community-based psychiatric service to older people in the West side of the South-West Community Hub, working in and providing clinical leadership to the West older people's team (6 DCC PAs) and an additional 1.5 DCC PAs to All York and Selby Memory Team.

To work with fellow consultants, clinical colleagues, and service managers to provide an assessment and treatment service for older people with mental health problems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working to provide clinical leadership to the West older people's team and overall responsibility for the medical aspects of care of patients in that sector (6 DCC PA). They also provide an additional 1.5 DCC PAs to All York and Selby Memory Team.
• To work jointly with colleagues from other disciplines and all relevant agencies to provide a comprehensive approach to patient care and treatment. TEWV supports New Ways of Working in Mental Health and the successful applicant will have a remit to contribute to multidisciplinary working in this context.
• To hold Responsible Clinician (RC) status as defined within the Mental Health Act &/or to support a non-medical RC as Approved Clinician (AC) for inpatients when on duty on the out-of-hours on-call rota and maintain section 12(2) approval.
• To assist colleagues in the Older People's service in planning, implementing, and monitoring older people's mental health services provided by TEWV.

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 of inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton, and Richmondshire.

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.