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Description
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive consultant psychiatrist to join the team on Townsend Court an 20 bedded, female adult acute ward in Mayer Way (Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire). The post holder will provide clinical leadership to the ward based MDT to deliver a range of evidence based and recovery orientated interventions in accordance with NICE guidance, within a frame of trauma informed care.
Townsend ward provides inpatient care for patients with a range of mental health conditions including Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia and Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder.
At ELFT, we recognize the importance of work life balance, and encourage flexible working.
Main duties of the job
Provide consultant leadership to the multidisciplinary ward team
Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the mental and physical health for 11 acutely ill adult female inpatients
Carry out all Responsible Clinician’s duties for those patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, maintaining all care planning in line with legal requirements. These duties will include: assessing patients under the Mental Health Act, capacity assessments, consent to treatment, tribunal report writing, attending Mental Health Act Review Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings, granting Sec 17 leave, revoking CTOs, recommending CTOs, etc.
Assume clinical responsibility for adult patients with mental illness admitted acutely from community services (All admissions will be gate- kept by the Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment team)
Undertake all work in the context of the recovery approach, which is emphasised across the Trust, placing the service user at the centre of care planning and decision making
Attend the ward daily to review patients, enable facilitation of the care program approach and involve carers when appropriate at each stage of the inpatient stay.
More Details In The Job Description.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will:
Provide consultant leadership to the multidisciplinary ward team
Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of the mental and physical health for 11 acutely ill adult female inpatients
Carry out all Responsible Clinician’s duties for those patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, maintaining all care planning in line with legal requirements. These duties will include: assessing patients under the Mental Health Act, capacity assessments, consent to treatment, tribunal report writing, attending Mental Health Act Review Tribunals and Managers’ Hearings, granting Sec 17 leave, revoking CTOs, recommending CTOs, etc.
Assume clinical responsibility for adult patients with mental illness admitted acutely from community services (All admissions will be gate- kept by the Crisis Resolution/Home Treatment team)
Undertake all work in the context of the recovery approach, which is emphasised across the Trust, placing the service user at the centre of care planning and decision making
Attend the ward daily to review patients, enable facilitation of the care program approach and involve carers when appropriate at each stage of the inpatient stay.
Provide support and training to other health care professionals and support service users through the care pathway as required whilst working with other teams in the community setting
Lead on the delivery of high-quality care in all settings and be mindful of quality targets set by the Trust and those set nationally
Continue to develop the inpatient setting as a therapeutic milieu
Maintain strong links with the specialist adult mental health services
Develop an expertise and knowledge of local services for people with mental health problems and refer to facilities available to specialist mental health services including psychotherapy and psychology services based in secondary care
Provide appropriate clinical supervision and training for junior medical staff and lead the multidisciplinary team
Take part in mandatory Trust audit programmes and also develop local relevant audit cycles to improve the function of the community rehabilitation team
Actively participate in the Trust’s clinical and strategic development
Be active in Quality Improvement and undertake relevant QI projects with the rest of the team
The post-holder will also be involved in the regular Consultant Duty Rota (approx 1:30) and s12 On Call Rota (approx. 1:30)
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Fully registered with the General Medical Council
Eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register (or Specialist Registrar within 6 months of gaining CCT at time of interview).
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
Eligible for Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act) / Approved Clinician or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
Desirable criteria
QUALIFICATIONS Fully registered with the General Medical Council A A higher degree such as MD or PhD A
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
Experience of clinical work in Adult Psychiatry at SpR, SASG or consultant level within the last 3 years
Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
Robust experience of working with severe and enduring mental illness and risk assessment, management
Desirable criteria
Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS/ ABILITIES
Essential criteria
Leadership skills
Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
Consultation skills to services, teams and individuals
Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
Commitment to working with service users on service development
Desirable criteria
Formal leadership and management training
Experience of team /service leadership
Experience of organisational development work
Project management ability
Essential Criteria
CLINICAL SKILLS AND SUPERVISION
Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
Self-motivating and innovative
Expertise in risk assessment
Confident in therapeutic risk taking
Commitment to clinical governance
Desirable criteria
Experience in supervising resident doctors and SAS doctors
TEACHING
Essential Criteria
Experience in teaching junior staff
Good teaching and communication skills
Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals
Desirable criteria
Medical education qualification
RESEARCH AND AUDIT
Essential Criteria
Audit Experience
Desirable criteria
Experience of research work, especially in general hospital patients and / or patients with medically unexplained symptoms
Experience of grant-funded project work
Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
UK driving licence
Desirable criteria
Car Owner
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don’t stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated ‘Outstanding’ again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other Reasons To Apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.
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