Consultant Psychiatrist Working Age Adult CMHT

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking dedicated Consultant Psychiatrists to join their Integrated Community Mental Health Teams in Leeds. This role offers the opportunity to provide high-quality care to individuals experiencing severe mental illness, ensuring they receive the necessary support in a flexible and accessible manner. The Trust is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, valuing lived experiences and the unique contributions of each team member. Join a forward-thinking organization that prioritizes patient care and employee well-being, with competitive salaries and a supportive work culture that encourages professional growth and development.

Benefits

Excellent relocation package

Annual leave entitlement

On-site parking

Cycle to work scheme

Health & Wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Qualified psychiatrist with MBChb and MRCPsych is essential.
• Experience in leadership and working within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality mental health assessments and interventions.
• Collaborate with community services and lead multidisciplinary teams.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Leadership Experience

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Trauma-Informed Care

Complex Prescribing

Education

MBChb

MRCPsych

CCT or CESR in General Adult Psychiatry

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Consultant

Main area: Community and Wellbeing
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 40 hours per week
Job ref: 173-65524-MED

Site: Various Trust sites
Town: Leeds
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 21/01/2025

All references should be directed through the Employers HR Department wherever possible to comply with NHS Check Standards. Please ensure that a HR address/email is provided for each referee named.

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit Consultant Psychiatrists to work into the newly transformed Integrated CMHTs across the city. Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist services across York, the Yorkshire and Humber region, and some highly specialised national services.

The newly transformed community service has been designed following the NHS Long Term Plan which seeks to address gaps in care provision and ensure that people experiencing severe mental illness and difficulties get the care they need.

Mental health services need to ensure that:

1. People can have a good-quality assessment at whatever point they present.
2. Interventions for mental health problems are readily available and accessible at the location most appropriate to people’s needs.
3. Care can be stepped up where or when more specialist care is required, and stepped down, in a flexible manner without the need for cumbersome referrals and repeated assessments.
4. There are effective links with community assets to support and enable people to become more embedded within their community and to use these assets to support their mental health.

Main duties of the job

Trauma informed care is a fundamental way of working which underpins how the service provides care. Teams consist of existing practitioners within Working Age Adult Community Mental Health Teams (WAA CMHT) and the Primary Care Mental Health (PCMH) element of Leeds Mental Wellbeing Service (LMWS). New roles will work within these teams, such as Community Wellbeing Connectors, expanded Peer Support roles, Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs), and Mental Health Wellbeing Practitioners (MHWPs), and Complex Psychosis Practitioners, working together to provide support to people within the local areas they serve.

Working for our organisation

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.

Here at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks 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:

1. Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
2. Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
3. 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

LYPFT now offers a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants to the Trust. All new appointed will be started on £105,390 at pay point YC72 point 04.

In addition to this we offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

• Excellent relocation package (if applicable)
• Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract
• On-site parking
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This post includes 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), 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.

*subject to conditions.

The Trust is seeking consultant psychiatrists to join the Integrated Community Mental Health Teams, with posts available in all areas of the city (West, South and East), both fulltime and less than fulltime.

The vacancies have arisen due to the recognition that for the new ICMHTs to work effectively across the city of Leeds, additional consultant recruitment is required. This additional number of posts will enhance medical staffing across the city. The post holders will carry no responsibility for inpatients.

Please enquire for details of number of sessions and area/office base of each available post. The post holder, supported by the MDT, will be expected to provide:

1. Regular clinical reviews, hub meetings, core team meetings, advice and guidance to primary care, referral meetings, daily huddles, flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews, clinical input within the CPA framework, Approved Clinician status and to undertake the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA 1983 under their care.
2. Complex prescribing and review, effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals and statutory organisations in support of safe care and risk management.
3. An expectation to work intensively and assertively with the client group, to contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community team.
4. To work collaboratively with other services within the Trust and other Trusts within the ICS, to provide professional leadership.
5. To provide protected clinical supervision to the Core and Higher Trainee and SAS Doctor.
6. To work jointly with the Clinical Leadership Structure, Operations Manager and Head of Operations and those in other agencies to ensure the service is delivered successfully.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MBChb and MRCPsych; CCT or CESR in general adult psychiatry

Experience

Skills

• Evidence of ability to work well in MDT
• Evidence of previous leadership experience and/or motivation in developing medical leadership

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to the job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates' best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.