Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist Cook Ward

JOB TITLE: Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist –

Cook Ward

CONTRACT: 8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)

Preferred

Substantive or Fixed Term (as preferred)

Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

BASE: Cook Ward, Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; IG3 8XJ

The Job Description Is Pending Royal College Approval.

Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for functional and dementia care.

This is a less than fulltime position that has been available for some time and is covered by a locum. It is an 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.0 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

The expectation of the post holder is to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work; we are kind, we are respectful and we work with our communities

This less than full-time post is for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position on an Older Adult Acute Ward for women (Cook Ward) with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary inpatient team.

On-call Responsibilities

The postholder 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 1:40 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 Director Job title: Medical Director Email address: Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk

Who To Contact For Informal Inquiries

Deputy Chief Medical Officer: Dr Sarah Dracass Sarah.Dracass@nelft.nhs.uk

Associate Medical Director: Dr Yasmin Sultana Yasmin.Sultana@nelft.nhs.uk

Chief Medical Officer: Dr Helene Brown Helene.Brown@nelft.nhs.uk

Medical Staffing: medicalstaffinghr@nelft.nhs.uk