Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist - F.I.N.D.

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist - F.I.N.D.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to join the newly developed Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in South West London & St George's Mental Health Trust. The forensic service sits within the Specialist Service Line of the Trust and is a provider within the South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) Forensic Provider Collaborative (PC).

The SLP Forensic PC's overarching goals centre on bringing care closer to home, improving patient pathways and outcomes by delivering excellent care in better environments. The SLP has a track record of delivering highly effective, clinically informed service developments across the Pathways within the Forensic PC. The post holder will be joining a skilled, motivated and innovative multidisciplinary team committed to continual learning and development and will be offered excellent CPD opportunities.

This is a less than full time role comprising 5PAs being offered on a locum basis. As a Trust we are proud to offer agile and flexible working opportunities as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will provide medical leadership to the Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (FIND) Community Team in South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. The FIND Community Team works with adults with a diagnosis of a Learning Disability and/or Autism who also experience co-morbid mental illness alongside offending behaviours which have brought them into contact with forensic services.

The development of the FIND Community Team is part of a series of initiatives for this patient cohort, namely the opening of Oak Low Secure Unit on the Springfield site which facilitates the repatriation of out of area patients to South London and the development of the LDA community step down service with Local Authority and ICB partners to allow the development of a pathway into the community for these patients with the provision of supported housing with wrap around clinical support.

The FIND Team will provide community treatment and care coordination, including social and clinical supervision of restricted cases in the community (under Section 42 of the Mental Health Act 1983) and the Consultant will carry overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, treatment and rehabilitation focused care delivered by the Team in the community.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job responsibilities

• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists.
• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, medication management and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team.
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
• Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
• Engagement in gatekeeping assessments of referrals.
• Please see attached JDPS for the detailed information.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Primary Medical degree.
• Full GMC registration.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Forensic or Learning Disability Psychiatry or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT.
• Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act.
• Approved Clinician status as well as S12 approval.
• Qualifications in change management and service development skills.

KNOWLEDGE: & EXPERIENCE:

• Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved higher psychiatric training scheme.
• A detailed knowledge of main treatment approaches for intellectual disabilities and autism, risk assessment and risk management, interface with the Criminal Justice system and forensic inpatient settings.
• Knowledge and experience of the ICETR process. Experience of teaching medical and non-medical staff, including those who may not have a formal qualification.

AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT

• Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit and/or research.
• Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer's groups, and local charities.
• Experience of service planning and development.
• Experience of working with third sector partners.

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS:

• Evidence of participation in research, and outcomes of studies.
• Completion of a research project and evidence of its dissemination.
• Publication in a peer reviewed journal.

TEACHING:

• Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry.
• Teaching Qualification Evidence of feedback good from students.

PERSONAL SKILLS AND CHARACTERISTICS:

• Ability to remain calm under pressure.
• Ability to inspire others.
• Ability to provide good clinical leadership.
• Ability to effect change.
• Ability to negotiate and collaborate with first, second and third sector organisations to identify shared agendas and meet common goals.
• Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from allied disciplines.
• Willingness to take on a fair share of Trustwide duties.
• Commitment to personal, team and service development.
• Ability to work co-operatively in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to manage and adapt to change.
• Personal experience of mental illness.
• Personal experience of social distress.
• Evidence of helping others who have suffered physical, mental or social misfortune.
• Evidence of seeking feedback as a way of improving one's skills.

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£105,504 to £139,882 a year per annum pro rata plus London Zone Allowance pro rata.