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'll be part of a dynamic multi-professional team dedicated to providing exceptional care for older patients. This role offers a unique opportunity to work in a supportive environment, focusing on both clinical excellence and professional development. With an emphasis on collaboration and continuous improvement, you will engage in teaching, clinical audits, and research, ensuring the highest standards of mental health care. If you're passionate about making a difference in the lives of older adults and thrive in a supportive, innovative setting, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Commitment to staff development

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Must have appropriate UK professional registration.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warnings and conditions.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Clinical Skills

Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective

Management of Clinical Complexity

Knowledge of Mental Health Act (MHA)

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 presentations. 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 the Crisis 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. 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 a range of clinical and therapeutic interventions.

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.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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 warnings and conditions on practice

Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using a 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 for 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.