Consultant Psychiatrist - Regency Ward (Inpatient), Hove (RRP payable)

Consultant Psychiatrist - Regency Ward (Inpatient), Hove (RRP payable)

Sussex Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our acute services at Mill View Hospital in Hove (in the Brighton and Hove Division). This post has become available due to an internal move. The Consultant will work with working age patients on Regency Ward (10 PA's), a 19 bed acute adult mental health ward. The Consultant will work with a full time Specialist (SAS) grade doctor. Regency Ward is situated in Mill View Hospital where there are 4 other acute wards with their own fully established medical teams. The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team is located within the hospital and accepts referrals from acute wards to facilitate supportive discharges. Mill View Hospital is also the base for some of the Brighton and Hove Community Mental Health Teams. The Consultant will work closely with the well-established and supportive multi-disciplinary Team, which also includes a full time SAS Doctor and resident doctors (as per rotational training scheme) to deliver person-centred mental health care. You will be supported by our wonderful substantive nursing staff, occupational therapists and psychologists to support, formulate and implement treatment plans. We regularly support medical students on placement from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide assessment and treatment for voluntary and detained patients with a range of acute mental health conditions. You will work closely with the nursing team, allied health professionals, families and carers. There is also a clinical psychologist for the wards and reflective practice groups and bite-size training sessions also take place on a weekly basis, facilitated by a psychologist.

The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide senior medical leadership to the ward and take the lead in managing complex cases, as well as providing clinical advice and liaison as required to colleagues in primary care, community services and acute specialties. You will provide specialist medical advice and consultation to a range of health and social care staff to promote effective delivery of person-centred mental health care.

You will work closely with the well-established and supportive Multi-Disciplinary Team to contribute towards local service development. You will also be part of a Trust wide consultant network, where there are opportunities to liaise with colleagues in other posts throughout the Trust and develop peer networks. You will also see consultant peers weekly at the local academic programme, at regular meetings in the locality, and at clinical governance meetings.

About us

This job attracts a Recruitment and Retention payment of £25,000, in addition to (up to) £8000 relocation allowance. The RRP payment is paid in the following instalments:

• £5000 payment paid on appointment
• £5000 retention payment paid at 12 month anniversary of employment
• £6500 retention payment paid at 30 month anniversary of employment
• £8500 retention payment paid at 48 month anniversary of employment

The Recruitment and Retention payment is pro rata for part time employees. If you would like further information, or to know the full terms of the Recruitment and Retention Payment and/or the Relocation Allowance, then please do not hesitate to contact our Medical Staffing Team - medicalstaffing@spft.nhs.uk

At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to those advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Royal College approved Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities:

• To work within the multidisciplinary team to provide a high quality of psychiatric assessment, treatment and care to users and their carers in a range of settings. This includes Mental Health Act assessments during working hours.
• Psychiatric and, when appropriate, physical investigations of patients in hospital settings. Related medical and administrative documentation including preparation of Mental Health Review Tribunal reports.
• To operate within guidelines, policies and procedures relevant to the post.
• To provide clinical advice, liaison and consultation as required to colleagues in primary care, community services and acute specialties in line with new ways of working.

Person Specification

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

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• 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.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & 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
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected 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.

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.