Consultant Psychiatrist

teams and alongside primary care teams, prison colleagues and probation. There is also important liaison with community mental health teams and in patient services and working closely with MAPPA agencies. This post-holder will have his or her base at HMP Channings Wood and HMP Exeter for the allocated PAs, where the mental health service comprises full multidisciplinary teams, including mental health practitioners, Learning disability nurses, an ADHD nurse, Cognitive Change nurse, Speech and Language Therapist, and a psychology team, supported by administration and a service manager.

The post includes an interesting and varied range of clinical responsibilities for prisoners with a wide range of clinical conditions, including acute and chronic mental illness, personality disorder, brain injury, dementia and neurodiversity. Workload at HMP Exeter & HMP Channings wood The in-reach team holds a caseload and within this caseload, a number of patients would be subject to CPA management. All referrals are triaged by the In-Reach Team and then discussed in MDT. At HMP Exeter there are approximately 50 patients held on caseload at any one point in time with 1-2 hospital transfers under the Mental Health Act per month. At HMP Channings Wood we have approximately 27 on mental health caseload and 7-10 hospital transfers per year. This is likely to increase with the planned expansion of prison numbers by 450. Whilst there is flexibility in allocation of individual responsibilities, the overarching model is one of integrated working across the mental health multidisciplinary