Consultant in Psychiatry

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job Description and Personal Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply Now to view in Trac.

A total of 40 sessions is available across the below services to be mutually agreed with successful applicants through a preferencing process:

Maple Ward

Ward 4 (New ward name to be confirmed)

CMHT North

CMHT South

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team

Successful applicants will have office accommodation, with IT support for e-mail, internet access and secretarial support. The post holder will be issued with all required IT equipment including a laptop and mobile phone as well as any reasonable adjustments that may be required.

Job Planning

Successful applicants will be offered flexibly agreed bespoke job plans with a base structure for a full time posting of 7 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) sessions and 3 Supporting Professional activities (SPA) sessions.

Consultant On-Call Rota

Sheffield Partnerships consultant oncall arrangements are designed to provide clear clinical support and maintain a sustainable worklife balance. The rota is approximately 1 in 24, with roughly one overnight per month and one weekend every five to six months. There is fully staffed firston (FY2 CT3 grade doctor) and secondon (ST4-ST7 or SAS doctor, s12 approved) tier, offering consultants a wellsupported, manageable oncall experience.

Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre

This pioneering new centre in the Gleadless Valley area of Sheffield is part of a national pilot programme aimed at transforming mental health care in communities.

Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is being developed to provide the right care at the right time, closer to home, with a strong focus on prevention and early intervention. It will offer a safe, welcoming space for people to access support before reaching crisis point, helping to reduce the need for inpatient admissions. Open for anyone in the Gleadless and Heeley area, the centre will include safe-space hospitality beds, offering an alternative to hospital-based care.

Designed to foster long-term, trusting relationships between patients and staff, and ensure continuity of care whether someone is at home or in crisis, Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is one of six pilots across England.

As well as a 24/7 mental health centre offering integrated, person-centred support for adults over 18 who have a serious mental illness, the site will include a revamped Terry Wright Community Hall (pictured), and a refreshed Newfield Green Library.

The centre is a collaborative project involving Sheffield Partnership, Heeley Plus Primary Care Network, Heeley Trust, Rethink Mental Illness, Synergy VCSE Mental Health Alliance, Sheffield Flourish, and Sheffield City Council. More than 400 local residents, including service users, carers, staff, and community organisations, were involved in developing plans for the centre. Engagement included public meetings, workshops and community group sessions.

Maple Ward

Maple ward is a male acute mental health inpatient ward which has 17 beds, all of which are individual rooms.

Every service user admitted to the ward has a care plan which outlines specific details of the treatment and support they will be offered.

This includes a named nurse who will be allocated to each service user. The named nurse will work closely with the service user throughout their time on the ward and will coordinate their plan of care.

Service users on the ward have access to a range of professionals, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, support workers and occupational therapists.

The team shares its expertise and experience to provide the very best care to our service users.

Several rooms at the ward have been specially fitted to provide the best environment for autistic service users. These include controllable RGB lighting, silent alarms, quiet-closing doors, extra soundproofing, and bright carpeted flooring.

Community Mental Health Teams

The North and South Community Mental Health Teams have a caseload of approximately 1,000 patients each. Each team has patients subject to CTO and conditionally discharged patients, and the consultant will be the RC for an equitable proportion of these patients.

The patients we care for include those with psychotic disorders, severe affective disorders, and personality disorders, as well as patients with co-morbid organic and/or neurodevelopmental diagnoses. We provide person-centred care that is strengths based, trauma informed, evidence-based and multidisciplinary.

The team is large and diverse. In addition to 2.5 WTE Consultants. Our MDT includes occupational and psychological therapists, peer recovery and support workers, a Physician Associate, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, and an excellent and supportive administration team.

We work closely with out acute & crisis pathway colleagues, including the Home Treatment Team, Decisions Unit, AMHP team and the inpatient wards.

Community Mental Health services are undergoing transition towards integrated care (including primary care and the voluntary sector). Sheffield Partnership have received significant investment from the Integrated Care Board to modernise and improve its community mental health services as part of the National Framework for Community Mental Health Transformation.

Within the CMHT we have moved away from the Care Programme Approach and implementing the Community Framework for Mental Health which includes care co-ordination led by the Multi-disciplinary Team rather than an individual Care Co-ordinator. The Locality CMHT is divided into four MDTs lead by a Clinical Team Manager and aligned to Primary Care Networks and PCMHTs.

Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team

The Home Treatment Team provides short-term mental health support at home, to avoid people being admitted to hospital and reduce length of stay for people in hospital. The team works across Sheffield and provides intensive support to our service users and their carers where there has been a significant deterioration in a persons mental health.

The Home Treatment Team is based at The Longley Centre, together with the Liaison Psychiatry service, and the urgent and crisis service, and some of our inpatient wards. The team undertakes crisis assessments, supports and treats people in the community as an alternative to admission to hospital and promotes timely discharge back into the community.

Person Specification

knowledge and skill

Essential

• Collaborative, inclusive and service user focused approach to assessment and formulation / diagnosis in a community setting.
• Clear, evidence-based approach to risk assessment & management.
• Ability to appraise complex, multi-faceted information from various sources and bring together into a shared, coherent understanding.
• Creative and collaborative approach to planning and delivering interventions and care plans.
• Strong, compassionate leadership skills.
• Ability to supervise and proactively lead junior staff.
• Ability to interpret published research and to apply research findings to clinical practice.
• Trauma informed clinical approach.

Desirable

• Knowledge of best practice and evidence relating to General Adult Psychiatry.
• Experience of involvement in service development.
• Leadership training / knowledge.
• Performance / governance focused and interested.

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• Inclusion on the Specialist Register or eligibility for inclusion.
• Certificate of Completion of Training in General Adult Psychiatry (Higher trainees should be within six months of attainment at the time of the interview) or CESR equivalent.
• Section 12 (2) MHA 1983 approved.
• Approved Clinician (AC) status / eligibility to be on the AC register.

Desirable

• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• MD, Other professional qualification (e.g. MSc)
• Coaching training
• Leadership training

Experience

Essential

• Experience in General Adult Psychiatry including working within a community and/or inpatient services.
• Experience of leading a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates.
• Evidence of experience in medical audit and understanding of principles of clinical governance

Desirable

• Experience as a Consultant Psychiatrist in a community or inpatient mental health team.
• Experience leading a community mental health service.
• Teaching/presentation experience (e.g., conference presentation, EBM, research experience) to a range of audiences.
• Experience networking and building collaborative working relationships across a range of stakeholders / other clinical specialisms to improve patient care pathways and experience.

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

various sites

Atlas way

Sheffield

S47QQ

Employer's website

https://www.sheffieldpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)