We have an exciting opportunity for Old Age Consultant Psychiatrists within our Older Peoples Services, including a newly designed community post and in an established inpatient team.

The new community post, splitting an existing community locality post, has been designed to reflect our aim to work towards new ways of working covering CMHT, Memory Assessment Service, Care Home Service and the Intensive Home Treatment team.

The inpatient post covers a female functional ward within the Older Peoples Service inpatient unit.

This is an opportunity for applicants wishing to work with enthusiastic and dynamic multi-professional city-wide services focused on providing a wide range of services for older people within the Leeds area.

Due to the innovative design, there will be considerable flexibility offered in terms of job planning and to allow focus on specific aspects of community care.

Main duties of the job

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? WE need you to help us achieve our goals to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

• Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
• Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
• Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here

About us

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

• Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
• Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract,
• On-site parking
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Wide -range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

As well as financial support for relocation (up to �8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

*subject to conditions.

What you will get:

• Supportive and friendly colleagues
• Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
• Weekly academic teaching
• Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
• Annual Medical Leadership development day

Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of �1000 per annum)

Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to medical expertise the successful applicant with provide professional leadership, including clinical supervision to the medical team working within the service and clinical supervision to the wider MDT when required. They will also have designated training responsibilities for junior doctors and engage within the trusts Clinical Governance structure.

Please specify in the supporting statement of your application whether you wish to be considered for the community, or inpatient position.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MB. BS. MBChB or equivalent
• CCT in Old Age psychiatry, or gaining this within 3 months

Experience

Essential

• Experience working within range of older people's service community services

Skills

Essential

• Evidence of excellent communication skills
• Evidence of experience working within an MDT

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

CMHT Older Peoples Services North

Leeds

LS10 4BS

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173-41623-MED