Consultant psychiatrist

Job title: Consultant psychiatrist

We are seeking a Consultant psychiatrist to join the Primary Care Liaison Service in Swindon. The post is an established post which has become vacant due to the previous incumbent moving to another service within AWP. The post involves working as the Primary Care Liaison consultant for a single CMHT catchment area in Swindon.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership in the team, help triage referrals, assess patients and make recommendations on care, provide advice to colleagues on assessment and management, liaising and working closely with the Intensive Service, Community Mental Health Team and Primary Care. The consultant will work closely with the PCLS Manager to ensure that safe, efficient and high-quality service is delivered by the Team. The Consultant will also provide clinical supervision and management supervision for doctors reporting to them.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will deliver advice to service users including undertaking assessments, and determining the most appropriate service provision to meet identified needs, including brief interventions where required. The Consultant will supervise any medical staff providing input into the service. Work collaboratively with the Recovery, Intensive and Inpatient Services to facilitate transitions through the care pathway The Consultant is expected to contribute to the development of services in line with best practice and nationally accredited standards. The post holder will be expected to support the senior management to and participate in strategic development both within the local service and the wider Trust. The Consultant will also be expected to provide leadership to their Team. The Consultant is expected to respond to Advice and Guidance requests within 3-5 working days in accordance with the PCLSS standard Operating Procedure. The requestors will primarily be GP, ARRS' Workers, RMN's based in GP surgeries, and at times, although scarce, other medical specialists based in Acute and Community Hospitals. Regular attendance at the PCLS Team MDT meetings. To support and participate in Clinical Governance and Audit To maintain competence to provide cover for supervision of ECT junior doctor rota (along with all other consultants). To provide medical and AC responsibility for patients within PCLS caseload from designated GP practices

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B& NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Essential

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

• Desirable

• Relevant Higher Degree e.g MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications

• MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

• Eligibility

• Essential

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment

• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT

• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

• Desirable

• CCT in General Adult Psychiatry

Experience

• Essential

• Experience of assessing and treating patients in an inpatient/community setting.

• Personal Skills

• Essential

• To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

• Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work

• Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Clinical Skills

• Essential

• Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in Adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.

• Specific skills in working with people with long term conditions, treatment-resistance, and multiple co-morbidities across a range of therapeutic modalities

• Knowledge

• Essential

• Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.

• Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation

• An understanding of the importance of Clinical Governance in NHS organisations and importance in patient care

• Desirable

• Knowledge of alternatives to inpatient admission care approaches

• Excellent knowledge of diverse range of interventions

• Teaching

• Essential

• Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.

• Understand principles of teaching.

• Desirable

• Experience as an Educational Supervisor for trainees

• Evidence of organisation of further teaching programmes in medical education or multi-professional education

• Post Graduate qualification in teaching

• Research and Audit

• Essential

• Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.

• Experience of carrying out an audit project.

• Ability to supervise junior medical staff undertaking research projects

• Desirable

• Ability to critically appraise published research

• Published audit project

• Management

• Essential

• Evidence of management/leadership skills training.

• Evidence of management/leadership skills training

• Ability to identify, assess and manage risk

• Desirable

• Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff