Millview Lodge and Crisis Intervention Team Consultant

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking NHS Trust as a consultant psychiatrist, where you will play a vital role in a dedicated multi-professional team. This position involves working with older patients in acute and community settings, ensuring they receive the highest quality of care. With a strong emphasis on professional development, you will benefit from weekly teaching and peer-group events. The Trust is committed to diversity and offers a supportive environment, encouraging flexibility in work patterns. If you are passionate about mental health and wish to make a significant impact in the lives of older individuals, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Professional development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Approved clinician status or ability to achieve within 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Clinical responsibility for reviewing patients accessing the service.
• Assess and review patients with Crises Team for Older People.

Skills

Clinical Skills

Bio-psycho-social Perspective

Clinical Complexity Management

MHA and MCA Compliance

Teaching and Training

Clinical Research

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management

Job description

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.

Job overview

The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join our established multi professional team at Mill View Lodge and Crisis Intervention and Treatment Team for Older People (CITOP).

Mill View Lodge is a 9 bedded acute admission unit for females predominantly over the age of 65, experiencing an acute change in their functional mental health needs, and CITOP provides a community alternative to admission with the facility to provide rapid and intensive support to older people with functional and organic presentation. There is a dedicated specialty doctor that provides support to the inpatient unit.

The post holder will join an established team of Specialist Consultant Psychiatrists in Old Age alongside a wider established network of consultants covering all sub-specialties. There is weekly teaching and weekly peer-group events to support professional and personal development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an integral part of the MDT and have clinical responsibility for reviewing people accessing the service, CPA reviews, medication management and where appropriate tribunal reports and tribunals. The post holder will also assess and review patients with Crises Team for Older People.

The services are supported by a dedicated service manager and a Modern Matron who provide operational and clinical support and oversight to both inpatient and CITOP teams, and both teams have nurse staffing from Bands 2 to Band 7 working across the shift patterns alongside dedicated Occupational Therapy, Social Work and sessional psychology services providing for a range of clinical and therapeutic intervention.

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

Minimum Requirements

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment (the Trust will appoint a section 12(2) to provide this role in the sector during the transition)
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic skills and lifelong learning

• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead a team
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.