JOB TITLE: Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist – Queens Hospital & Goodmayes 24hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Hub (across both sites)
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Substantive
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Queen’s Hospital, Barking, Havering and Redbridge
University Trust (BHRUT), Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG and Block 8, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG3 8XJ
This is a new Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist post created when an established consultant in the Psychiatric Liaison Service at Queen’s Hospital reduced their hours for work life balance and the available PAs were added to Consultant Programmed Activities in our new 24hour Enhanced Crisis Assessment Hub on the Goodmayes Hospital site.
This is funded as ten Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The post is currently filled with a locum at both sites. It is a full-time substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.
The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.
- We are kind
- We are respectful
- We work with our communities
This is a Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist role across two mental health teams aligned to the crisis pathway; the Psychiatric Liaison Service at Queens Hospital and the newly expanded 24 hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Hub offering a co-designed space with assessment and therapeutic intervention for patients presenting with a mental health crisis as an alternative to Emergency Departments. Both services benefit from excellent, stable, multidisciplinary teams including professions such as peer support workers as well as nurses, psychologists, and other clinical roles.
Rationale For Post
This is a new post that has been created to support the acute mental health care pathway in the Emergency Departments and provide alternatives for A&E attendance providing a quick assessment of patients in crises and formulating management plans that support recovery and reduce admission where possible.
On-call Responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on-call covers Adult and Older Adult services. This is currently a 1:50 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The Trust also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota with an approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months, with all Section 12 approved doctors expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Dracass Job title: Deputy Chief Medical Officer Email address: Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk
Associate Medical Director: Dr Yashavanth Bangalore Yashavanth.Bangalore@nelft.nhs.uk
Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk 
