Consultant Psychiatrist in Inpatient General Adult Psychiatry - AAU

NHS; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist in Inpatient General Adult Psychiatry - AAU

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

*There is a generous recruitment premium attached to this post of £40K in addition to the standard relocation expenses (T&Cs apply).

The appointee will provide Consultant leadership and psychiatric input into the acute inpatient unit at the Cavell centre. They will work with the multidisciplinary team and establish good liaison and links with the community teams. Four sessions are protected for special interest to be negotiated in job planning. These may include specific management or teaching responsibility or research.

Main duties of the job

This post consists of 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs) which includes 6 PAs of direct clinical care and 4 PAs for supporting activities and CPD. The consultant will be responsible for the care of patients admitted to the inpatient unit. The consultant will also work with well-established services alongside other medical and non-medical colleagues. The appointed consultant will provide strong leadership to the teams and drive further service developments in acute care. Junior doctor support in the form of Specialty doctors, higher trainee or a core psychiatric trainee is provided.

The successful candidate will be working alongside consultant colleagues in the North of the County. The ward is co-located on the Cavell Centre with three other Psychiatric Inpatient Units and the Crisis Home Treatment Team; all of which have substantive consultant Psychiatrists in post. These consultants form a key part of a multiprofessional clinical leadership team across the Wards at the Cavell Centre which provide a source of mutual professional support and collaborative working.

The post will involve close working relationship with modern matron, nurse specialists and team managers. A consultant mentor is offered to all new consultants as part of a well established package of support and engagement with the wider consultant body across the Trust.

About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities

The Consultant Psychiatrist is a key clinical leader for the Team. Their role includes:

1. Represent the team to other Consultants and management.
2. Clinical areas:

• Diagnosis
• Bio psychosocial approach to treatment
• Evidence based interventions
• Legal issues
• Boundary setting

Clinical Leadership:

• Enabling/Encouraging other team members
• Strategic planning and development
• Available to the team both to individuals and the team as a whole
• Active team member
• Attend regular reviews
• Work towards high team morale

Education:

• Medical students from Cambridge University
• Junior Doctors
• Other disciplines
• Evaluation
• Audit
• Research
• Purpose and functioning of the team

A source of wisdom to the team. The post holder will:

1. Work in accordance with the New Ways of Working initiative for Consultants, attend regular team meetings such as MDT meetings and formulation meetings to discuss clinical issues with team members, care coordinators, inpatient doctors and other statutory agencies as required for the care of community patients.
2. Work closely with other consultant colleagues to ensure that the patient journey is as smooth as possible.
3. Provide clinical leadership and actively liaise with general practitioners, psychiatrists and other hospital specialists, statutory and non-statutory agencies, whenever relevant to the care and treatment of patients.
4. Be committed to a multidisciplinary approach to care.
5. Use evidence-based interventions at all times.
6. Offer a consistent response to referrers/service users regardless of origin of referral in a timely fashion.
7. Offer an accurate diagnosis and timely interventions so that intensive treatment can be delivered to present chronicity and dependency on psychiatric services, in accordance with the recovery model.
8. Attend Mental Health Act assessments as requested for relevant patients.
9. Act as the Responsible Clinician for inpatients including attending Tribunals, as necessary.
10. Participate in the development and maintenance of care programmes for patients.
11. Supervise junior and middle grade doctors in the team.
12. Participate in the teaching programmes of the multidisciplinary team.
13. Contribute to the collection of clinical information to ensure further service development and to enable audit.
14. Work closely with consultant colleagues to contribute to the provision of appropriate Consultant cover for daytime, 9 am to 5 pm, (working days) and for periods of annual/study/special leave.
15. Participate in the on-call Consultant rota primarily for advice; Consultants are on the 3rd Tier of on call.
16. Participate in clinical governance and teaching activities.
17. Contribute to the day-to-day management and to the overall service development agenda through appropriate involvement with managerial and clinical colleagues.
18. Undergo annual appraisal and fulfil the requirements of continuing professional development (CPD) in order to meet the criteria for revalidation by the General Medical Council.
19. Agree a job plan with the Clinical Director.
20. Attend Trust Wide Medical Advisory Groups.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and licence to practice
• MBBS or equivalent
• Approved Clinician and Section 12 Status or eligible to attend training.
• Relevant Higher Degree e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications
• Completion of Clinical and Educational Supervisor Training

Entry criteria for the grade

• Specialty Registration in specialty
• CCT in relevant specialty or within 6 months of attainment of Higher Training CCT at time of interview.
• Shall have equivalent experience and competencies recognised by GMC

Experience

• Experience in assessing and treating mental health patient in out-patient and community settings.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Experience of training doctors in training.
• Experience of working across different services within mental health. Other relevant experience, e.g. specific psychological therapies.
• Qualifications of experience in managing physical illness

Skills/Knowledge/Ability

• Previous experience in taking a leadership role in several multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring high quality care and staff morale.
• Excellent written and oral communication and IT skills. Management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant Psychiatrist.
• Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work.
• Ability to appraise own performance.
• Evidence of specific achievements that demonstrate leadership skills
• Knowledge of recent changes in case law, in relation to Mental Health.
• Knowledge of recent changes in the NHS.

Qualities/Attributes

• Ability to demonstrate/develop and understanding of service within the wider context of NHS Mental Health Services and PCTs.
• Experience of developing services in a constantly changing environment within tight budgetary restraints.

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Associate Clinical Director and Consultant

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £40K Recruitment and Retention Premia (T&Cs apply)