Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry

Job summary

TOlder people CMHT service for Southwest York Locality as well as

Selby has an over 65 population of about 22000.

The CMHT provides Monday Friday 9am - 5pm assessment and treatment services whichinclude the provision of care for older people with functional mental health problems as wellas complex organic care for patients in their own homes. The entire southwest team receives about 400 referrals each year.The approximately the West team receives around 50% of the southwest team referral.

The post holder is expected to see approximately 6 to 8 new CMHT patients a month.The team implements purposeful and productive community service model.The postholder is expected see approximately 8 to 10 review CMHT patients a month.This post has 1.5 PAs of Memory clinic work inbuilt to make it a fulltime post.The post holder is expected to see around 9 new memory patients in every 2 weeks period.

The memory initial assessment and cognitive testing are completed by Memory Nurses.The post holder is not required review previously seen memory service patients.

Memory Monitoring nurses review patients who have previously seen the consultants. At the time of writing this there are no CTO or section 37/41 patients.Usually there is no more than 1 or 2 patients a year per consultant under MHA.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a community based psychiatric service to older people in the South-West Community Hub, working in and providing clinical leadership to the West older peoples team (7.5PAs- DCC & 2.5 PAs - SPA). To work with fellow consultants, clinical colleagues and service managers to provide an assessment and treatment service for older people with mental health problems.

About us

We are Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country operating across Durham, Tees Valley, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

We deliver a range of community and in-patient care across adult mental health, children and young peoples services, mental health services for older people and forensic services. We have over 7,000 staff working across more than 90 sites.

With an annual operating income of over £420 million, we work in partnership with local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary organisations, the private sector, as well as people who use our services, their families and carers.