Consultant Psychiatrist Chiltern - East Community Mental Health Team

Job responsibilities

The Trusts services are now organised and managed on the basis of three directorates: Adult, Children and Young People and Older People Services. Medical staff have contributed significantly to service developments, service redesign and efficiency programmes within the Trust, and to the related development of primary care mental health services. An active programme of organisational and service development is well under way. This supports coherent care pathways through primary care, secondary care and, when necessary, specialist clinical services and services provided by other agencies. Psychiatrists in the Trust are encouraged to contribute to this developmental work.

The Consultant will provide senior medical input and clinical leadership to the CMHT. The post holder will have responsibility for those patients seen by himself/herself, together with those patients seen by medical staff directly supervised by the post holder.

The post holder will assess new routine referrals from other agencies alongside other clinicians, provide consultations to non-medical clinicians and offer ongoing management for patients requiring longer term care.

The post holder will work alongside the team manager and the other Consultant Psychiatrists in the team to ensure the effective functioning and development of the service.

The consultant will provide direct clinical supervision to any trainees and speciality doctors placed with the team who are seeing their patients, and psychiatric supervision and line management to any trainee or specialty doctor allocated specifically to them .This will include one hour per week psychiatric supervision for trainees and a pro rata equivalent level of supervision to speciality doctors, in conjunction with other consultants. This will be in line with the trust supervision policy and will be reflected in the job planning process.

The consultant will be expected to provide direct clinical care and ensure medical involvement in the CPA process.

Providing timely written correspondence to relevant professionals documenting assessments, on-going management, progress, and eventual discharge using Trust IT and clinical records system training will be provided where needed. Completion of CPA documentation when necessary.

Work collaboratively with other agencies. In particular liaison with staff from other teams to manage smooth and timely transfer into and out of the CMHT.

The consultant will be expected to contribute to the collection of data as required by the Trust and other relevant agencies. This includes the timely recording of clinical activity data, and participation in clinical audit with appropriate administrative support.

The consultant will be expected to attend most regular directorate managerial meetings as necessary, particularly the Medical Advisory Committee (every four months) and monthly Directorate/Managerial liaison meetings.

The consultant will be expected to participate in and attend the local training programme for junior doctors.

The consultant would be expected to participate in both a CPD peer group and a clinical peer supervision group with fellow consultants. A monthly consultant Balint group is also available.

The consultant would be expected to maintain their own programme of training and CPD accreditation with the support of their Associate Medical Director/Clinical Director and peer group.

The consultants will normally cross-cover for each other for annual leave, study leave and brief periods of sickness absence.

There is a daytime Monday-Friday cover rota (currently approximately 1 in 10) for the Whiteleaf Centre in the event of any issues with usual cross-cover arrangements.

The consultants take part the Buckinghamshire Adults of Working Age out-of-hours rota. This is a 1 in 17.6 non-resident on-call rota, with 3%, band A intensity. There is a junior doctor (StR1-3, GPVTS or FY2) on shift out of hours, and StR4-6 trainees take part in a supernumerary non-resident on-call rota (1:18 with 4-6 trainees).

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for more details

Qualifications

Essential

• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
• Eligibility for Section 12 (Mental Health Act 1983) Approval

Desirable

• Higher degree or equivalent in relevant field of medical, psychological or other studies or postgraduate teaching qualification

Training

Essential

• Higher specialist training in dual or general adult / older adult psychiatry in approved training post for a minimum of three years, equivalent training in another country, or previous consultant experience relevant to this post
• CCT in Psychiatry; OR Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in psychiatry; OR within six months of achieving CCT at the time of interview; OR CESR

Desirable

• Sub-speciality or other specialist clinical training relevant to post in particular CRHT experience.

Clinical Experience

Essential

• Experience of the full range of clinical responsibilities expected of a consultant in general adult/ Older adult psychiatry.
• Experience of close collaborative work with social care and other agencies

Desirable

• Application of evidence-based practice and interest in clinical and policy developments for this care group
• Development of close collaboration with primary care services
• Experience of early intervention in psychosis services and knowledge prodromal states for psychosis

Ability

Essential

• Ability to undertake full range of consultant responsibilities

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• a) Leadership skills -Ability to work within a collaborative multidisciplinary framework, and to share leadership responsibilities with senior colleagues of other professions
• b) Organisation and management skills - Ability to understand how organisations
• Commitment to active clinical governance
• Ability to promote effective team working
• Capacity to prioritise workload
• Active participation in clinical audit
• Commitment to interagency partnership working
• c) Communication skills - Must have good skills in communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and staff of other organisations. Good spoken and written English.
• d) Professional approach - Work collaboratively and effectively with a range of professionals.
• e) Personal skills - Must have interest in and commitment to people with mental health problems, and their carers.
• f) Teaching experience -Experience in supervising and teaching core psychiatric trainees
• Application of research evidence to clinical practice

Desirable

• Relevant experience of the administrative, management and leadership roles of senior medical staff
• Inter-agency partnership working and development
• Undergraduate and postgraduate medical teaching.
• Supervision of advanced level trainees
• Research experience and skills

Other requirements

Essential

• a) GMC registration - Full
• b) Transport - Mobility as required for the post
• c) Professional attributes - Meet specifications set out in GMC Guidance: Duties of doctor
• d) IT skills - Good IT skills including typing

Desirable

• Driving licence and own transport

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).