Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist Tulip Ward

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000

Job description

Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist Tulip Ward

North London Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Tulip Ward, which is an 18-bed female acute psychiatric ward in the new Blossom Court inpatient unit in St Ann's Hospital in Haringey. The post is available since a previous substantive consultant moved to a different clinical area and has been covered by a locum consultant since then.

This post offers 10 Programmed Activities per week - 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity. The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and priorities.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary team, working in close collaboration with the ward manager and other senior clinicians in the team.

The ward is a female-only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years and above. It serves all of North Central London - so whilst patients will be primarily from Haringey, some will be from Barnet and Enfield and on occasion from Camden or Islington. The ward provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse. Some patients may have treatment-resistant psychosis including severe negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase Farm Hospital.

Patients are admitted to the ward via the Home Treatment Team (HTT) that serves as gatekeepers to inpatient care in close collaboration with the Access & Flow Team. Patients are referred to the HTT from the local GPs, local A&E departments, Community Mental Health Teams, and the police via the HBPoS.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environments to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme.

Excellent internal staff network.

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership for the only female ward. The post-holder will be expected:

1. To manage 18 adult inpatients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, many of whom will be detained under a section of the Mental Health Act (MHA).
2. To conduct assessments, request investigations and contribute to formulation of acutely unwell psychiatric inpatients.
3. To formulate treatment plans and oversee implementation and evaluation of these treatment plans.
4. To contribute to management of patient flow with a view to manage bed capacity effectively and avoid or flag up potential delayed transfers of care.
5. To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures.
6. To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.
7. To teach and supervise medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care.
8. To participate in the trust-wide day-time consultant psychiatrist second on-call Rota for Health Based Place of Safety situated at Chase Farm Hospital (1:32) and the trustwide on call rota.
9. To participate in the daily MDT Meeting and other regular ward or team meetings including staff supervision.
10. To undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.
11. To take part in weekly Haringey discharge planning meetings and other regular meetings around patient flow involving locality and system colleagues.
12. To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.
13. As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Open Dialogue Training.
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Section 12 Approved or able to achieve within three months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

Transport

• Valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

Academic Skills and lifelong learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Ability to work in and lead a team.
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit/quality improvement programmes.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.

Information Technology Experience & Skills

• Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet.
• Experience in data gathering and management.

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.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum.