Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health - In Patient

The post is based at Cross Lane Hospital, which is a modern, custom-built, AIMS-accredited psychiatric unit. The Ayckbourn unit houses the male and female AMH wards.

The job is split into 3 sessions of supporting professional activities (SPA) and 7 sessions of direct clinical care (DCC).

You will provide expert assessment and care to patients admitted to the wards, specifically to 6 patients, 3 on each ward. They will have a dedicated slot for discussion of their patients in the daily report out. The daily report out is attended by a Multidisciplinary team comprising the people described in Section 3. They provide input based on a biological, psychological, and social model to support the treatment and recovery of each patient. The two nurse consultants would have similar slots to discuss their patients. There is an expectation of the postholder supporting the Specific MHA requirements that the Nurse consultants portfolios, such as sectioning of patient, does not permit.

It is hoped that you will be encouraged to use the enhanced SPA provision within this post to engage in research, education or service development in conjunction with local colleagues in order to ensure that this can occur in formal protected time. You will be expected to provide key medical leadership to the wards alongside the MPACs and a multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

Offer senior advice and support in the assessment, formulation, diagnosis and management of presenting conditions.

Support the team and other prescribers to make safe and effective prescribing decisions where required.

Senior medical care/supervision in the assessment, diagnosis, care planning and delivery of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions.

Take part in morning report out meetings with the team as well as attending MDT meetings, professionals meetings, and the team leadership meeting.

Take part in and provide insight and direction into complex case work, contributing to the overarching formulation of patient care and planning within the scope of MDT approach.

Join the wider team in providing relevant teaching and training when required.

Provide support to the Nurse Consultants in their role as Approved Clinicians and Non-medical prescribers.

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).