Job summary

This is an opportunity to a join as substantive consultant psychiatrist in mental health care for older persons the well-established and high performing community mental health team for older persons in Newham.

The post has become available due to previous substantive post-holder moving to another Trust.

AAC Panel interview: 22nd June 2023

Main duties of the job

• To take the overall clinical responsibility for their sector patients and to review patients regularly together with the multi-disciplinary team.
• To provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients, by delivering interventions as specified in the Job Description

****Full duties can be found in the Job Description

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Fully registered with the General Medical Council
• On the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT with an endorsement in old age psychiatry
• Higher training in approved training posts for minimum of 3 years and / or previous consultant training.
• Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
• Approval under Section 12(2) of Mental Health Act 1983 and Approved Clinician status

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience of clinical work in General Adult Psychiatry at ST4-6 or Consultant level within the last 3 years
• Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act
• Appreciation and understanding of ethnic minority issues and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
• Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
• Experience of working on an inpatient ward

Desirable

• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Knowledge & experience of recovery-informed service delivery and working with patients as experts by experience
• Inpatient experience at consultant level

ORGANISATIONA L SKILLS/ ABILITIES

Essential

• Leadership skills
• Ability to work as a part of multidisciplinary, multi-model team
• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Experience of organisational development work
• Commitment to working in multidisciplinary setting
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
• Project management ability

Desirable

• Formal leadership and management training
• Experience of team /service leadership
• Experience of organisational development work
• Experience of providing reflective practice to the teams
• Experience of providing reflective practice to the teams

Experience of providing reflective practice to the teams

Essential

• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Self-motivating and innovative
• Expertise in risk assessment and evidence-based intervention after self-harm
• Confident in therapeutic risk taking
• Commitment to clinical governance

Desirable

• Training in a psychological therapy

TEACHING AND SUPERVISION

Essential

• Experience in teaching junior staff
• Good teaching and communication skills
• Experience of teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates
• Experience of teaching non-medical mental health professionals

Desirable

• Medical education qualification

RESEARCH AND AUDIT

Essential

• Experience of research work, especially in general hospital patients and / or patients with medically unexplained symptoms
• Audit experience

Desirable

• Experience of grant-funded project work
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to get on with colleagues

Desirable

• Media training

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