Consultant Psychiatrist in Teesside Urgent Care Services

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 200,000 +; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in the United Kingdom is looking for a dedicated professional to work with the South of Tees Urgent Care service. The role involves providing high-quality alternatives to psychiatric admissions and facilitating patient discharges effectively. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to daily meetings to ensure optimal patient care. Ideal candidates should have experience in mental health and flexibility to adapt to service needs. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are provided.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health care, preferably in urgent care settings.
• Ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Flexibility to work across services as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide alternative to acute psychiatric admissions.
• Facilitate early discharge for patients.
• Attend daily team meetings and support patient care.

Job description

Overview

The postholder will mainly work with the South of Tees Urgent Care service based at Roseberry Park Hospital. The postholder will work closely with their counterpart for the North of Tees Urgent Care Service and will demonstrate the flexibility of working with the North of Tees Urgent Care Service as and when a need arises, on a reciprocal basis. The post also covers the Crisis Assessment Suite based at Roseberry Park Hospital; this work is shared with the Consultant for North of Tees Urgent Care Service.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that a high quality alternative to acute psychiatric admission exists for individuals experiencing a crisis related to severe mental health problems.
• Provide early discharge facilitation via an effective In Reach Service and 24 hour, 365 day per year rapid response seeing all referrals within 4 hours.
• Attend the Inpatient 24 Hour Report out, Discharge Planning Meetings and work with the Care Coordinator to facilitate discharge.
• Attend daily team huddles and support the team on a day to day basis, reviewing patients as and when necessary.
• Attend the weekly Supercell meeting with Team manager, Consultant, Advanced practitioner, Psychologist etc. to discuss team and patient related issues.

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).