Job summary
Perinatal mental health services underwent a time of huge expansion nationally. Locally this has led to the development of a comprehensive perinatal mental health service for South Birmingham during Wave 1 of national funding. Wave 2 of this nationally funding has led to the creation of comprehensive services covering the Black Country and West Birmingham and the North & East Birmingham and Solihull. All teams are multi-disciplinary and comprise of specialist practitioners from relevant disciplines - psychology, nursing, OT, nursery nurses. These new teams work alongside the well-established existing 10 bedded inpatient Mother and Baby Unit and its inreach/outreach team, which accepts referrals from across the country. The Mother and Baby Unit is now commissioned by the newly-formed West Midlands Perinatal Provider Collaborative.
An important aspect of this post will be supporting the continued development of perinatal mental health community teams.
We are seeking to recruit a consultant psychiatrist who will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the West Birmingham area for 5 PAs per week for a fixed term period of 1 year.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the West Birmingham area.
The postholder and the other consultants for Birmingham will provide reciprocal cover for the community team during the working week, as well as for the inpatient MBU.
A considerable amount of multi-agency work is envisaged with the post-holder working with relevant key agencies including Child Protection teams, Health Visiting Services and Public Health colleagues from the Local Authorities, close working with professionals at maternity hospitals, primary care - including IAPT workers, GPs and Children's Centres, and collaboration with the voluntary sector. Training and advice for linked agencies will be an important role of the postholder.
Collaboration with other agencies including maternity services, health visitors and GPs with which women will come into contact during their pregnancy and post-natal period is an integral part of the role, with timely and appropriate information sharing between agencies.
About us
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details of the roles and responsibilities of this post.
If you have any questions or would like to arrange to visit the service, please contact:
Dr Nilushi Ratnayaka Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrist West Birmingham team
Dr Jelena Jankovic, Lead perinatal consultant, j.jankovic@nhs.net
Dr Manny Bagary, Clinical Director, m.bagary@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details of the roles and responsibilities of this post.
If you have any questions or would like to arrange to visit the service, please contact:
Dr Nilushi Ratnayaka Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrist West Birmingham team
Dr Jelena Jankovic, Lead perinatal consultant, j.jankovic@nhs.net
Dr Manny Bagary, Clinical Director, m.bagary@nhs.net
Person Specification
scoring
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence
- Approved under Section 12(2) of the education, clinical Mental Health Act (1983)
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Obtained inclusion on the Specialist Register; or within six months of the award of a CCST in General Adult Psychiatry; or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register
- Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development
- Experience within the field of perinatal psychiatry at senior trainee level
- Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting, Out Patient, In Patient and general hospital liaison settings.
- Experience of providing psychological and/or social interventions
- Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
- Commitment to clinical audit within multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to critically appraise published research
- Understanding of policies and National guide-lines relating to Perinatal psychiatry, maternal and Child health, including CEMACH, NICE, SIGN and relevant NHS and RCPsych publications
- Ability to understand and contribute to the current evidence-base
- Experience of carrying out audit projects
- Evidence of potential for effective leadership.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work creatively within multi- disciplinary team.
- Evidence of ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner
- Evidence of management and administrative ability
- Highly motivated to provide high quality patient centred services
- Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
- Willingness to be involved in management of service.
- Experience in Medical Education
- Able to travel
Desirable
- Additional qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or another relevant field
- Broad clinical training including both inpatient and community service
- Specific training in relation to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population.
- Experience of stakeholder engagement in service delivery
- Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
- Experience of work with patient-support groups relevant to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience of supervised training in aspects of psychotherapy either through completion of post-graduate courses and/or a series of supervised cases
- Above level 3 Child Safeguarding training.
- Completed clinically relevant audit projects
- Research experience to a high level within perinatal psychiatry
- Published research within perinatal psychiatry
- Presentation at regional or national perinatal mental health meetings
- Computer skills in word processing, presentation and databases
- Qualification in Medical Education
Person Specification
scoring
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence
- Approved under Section 12(2) of the education, clinical Mental Health Act (1983)
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Obtained inclusion on the Specialist Register; or within six months of the award of a CCST in General Adult Psychiatry; or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register
- Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development
- Experience within the field of perinatal psychiatry at senior trainee level
- Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting, Out Patient, In Patient and general hospital liaison settings.
- Experience of providing psychological and/or social interventions
- Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
- Commitment to clinical audit within multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to critically appraise published research
- Understanding of policies and National guide-lines relating to Perinatal psychiatry, maternal and Child health, including CEMACH, NICE, SIGN and relevant NHS and RCPsych publications
- Ability to understand and contribute to the current evidence-base
- Experience of carrying out audit projects
- Evidence of potential for effective leadership.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work creatively within multi- disciplinary team.
- Evidence of ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner
- Evidence of management and administrative ability
- Highly motivated to provide high quality patient centred services
- Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
- Willingness to be involved in management of service.
- Experience in Medical Education
- Able to travel
Desirable
- Additional qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or another relevant field
- Broad clinical training including both inpatient and community service
- Specific training in relation to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population.
- Experience of stakeholder engagement in service delivery
- Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
- Experience of work with patient-support groups relevant to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience of supervised training in aspects of psychotherapy either through completion of post-graduate courses and/or a series of supervised cases
- Above level 3 Child Safeguarding training.
- Completed clinically relevant audit projects
- Research experience to a high level within perinatal psychiatry
- Published research within perinatal psychiatry
- Presentation at regional or national perinatal mental health meetings
- Computer skills in word processing, presentation and databases
- Qualification in Medical Education
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
