Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry – Stafford IMHT

Job summary

This post is being advertised Pending Royal College Approval

The post is a community Consultant post in General Adult Psychiatry to join the Stafford Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) which has been created and is being developed through Community Mental Health Transformation.

The Consultant will hold a caseload of approximately 90 of which many will have other clinicians in the IMHT working with them. The team is made up of 2.6 wte Psychiatrists, 1.0 Advanced Clinical Practitioner, 6.8 wte Nurses, 2.0 Nursing Associate, 1.8 wte Occupational Therapists, 2.0 wte Psychologists, 2.0 wte Psychological Therapist, 2.0 Clinical Associate in Psychology, 4.0 wte Healthcare Support Workers 0.8 Peer Recovery Worker and 1 Team Manager.

Main duties of the job

The Post Holder, will provide medical leadership within a collective leadership model.

Clinical duties of the post:

To ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway - via individual assessments and follow up appointments, MDT meetings and sometimes the Care Programme Approach (CPA) review, particularly where the complexity requires it

To be the Responsible Clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable

To provide evidence based care

To be recovery focused

To provide cross-cover (emergency and prospective) for other Consultant Psychiatrist colleagues by mutual agreement

To communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way including service users, carers and General Practitioners.

To work within the requirements of service contracts including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards

To fully utilise Trust IT systems as appropriate to enable fulfilment of clinical duties; including launch of the electronic prescribing system

The Post Holder will take part in out of hours duties; on call work is remunerated at 3% as well as 0.25 APAs.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications