Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist Community

The Leeds specialist perinatal community team has been functioning since 2004.

The annual birth rate for the city of Leeds is upwards of 8700. Current referral rates to the perinatal service are about 1100 annually. It is expected that with the fully staffed community team, all women with perinatal mental health problems in the moderate to severe spectrum requiring specialist assessment and advice will receive specialist intervention.

It is expected that approximately 1000 women will receive care annually. All team members will be involved in assessments and the post holder will provide clinical leadership to the team.

Other members of the community team will include 2.2 WTE Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, 1.0 WTE band 7 Clinical team manager, consultant psychologist, principal psychologists, therapist, band 6 Community, nursery nurse, social worker, band 3 admin, peer support workers and Occupational therapist. The MDT meets the criteria set by the RCPsych /CCQI and is an accredited service.

Main duties of the job

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

1. Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
2. Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
3. Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here.

About us

New consultants will be remunerated at a minimum on pay point 5 of the Consultant PayScale.

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

• Excellent relocation package (if applicable)
• Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract
• On-site parking
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

We want to understand what flexibility means to you; do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

*subject to conditions.

What you will get:

• Supportive and friendly colleagues
• Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
• Weekly academic teaching
• Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational/training development opportunities
• Annual Medical Leadership development day
• Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see attached the Job description for full details of the post.

Interviews for this position will be conducted face to face. Remote / Virtual interviews can be arranged on request.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Full registration with the GMC and licence to practice in the UK

Experience
Essential

• Experience in service area as a consultant

Skills
Essential

• Excellent clinical and communication skills.

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