Primary Care Mental Health Teams provide care for people with mental health needs that cannot be met in primary care/community support or Talking Therapies Southwark, or by the new PCN practitioner provision.

Referrals will be received from

GP/primary care colleagues

Wellbeing hub/third sector

Crisis/emergencyservices

Self-referrals

Other Trusts

The service will provide assessment/ triage of referrals by a single assessor, MDT / multi-agency assessment and care planning and brief treatment/interventions. Other interventions offered by the team include stepped care psychological interventions, longer term therapies, peer support, carer support, dual diagnosis specialist interventions, rapid access to eating disorder specialists and coordination of access to other support and interventions e.g. Employment advice, welfare/benefits advice. The routes out following treatment/assessment will be to facilitate astep back downto primary care /community-basedsupportor totransfertoalonger term / specialist team

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of post holder

The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership to the PCMHT and to work with the Clinical Service Lead to deliver high quality care for patients under the care of the service,

They are described further and fully in the Job Description

About us

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatientbased services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skillsand interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme inEurope, the Middle East and China,

The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The team's work is principally to assess all new referrals to secondary care and undertake short-term interventions with service users. A crucial element of the team's work is to undertake effective liaison and consultation with Primary Care and other services and to improve on the positive links already established.

The role of the consultant is to participate in the system of triaging assessments and allocating them to appropriate staff, to take part in face to face assessments (in clinic or at home) of those cases which are complex or likely to benefit from medical expertise, and also to provide supervision to the multidisciplinary team as a whole. Close liaison with primary care will be a key part of the role, by contacting GPs directly about patients and by attending regular meetings with local practices to improve the primary / secondary care interface and enhance the ability of medical colleagues working in primary care.

For patients assessed, the post holder has a key role in supporting a thorough multi-professional assessment to allow formulation of a detailed care plan including identified interventions in accordance with NICE guidance and recognised best practice. The post holder will actively work with other senior clinicians in the team in engaging local GPs and other primary care staff to understand what their needs are in relation to managing patients with and how the team can support the practice. The consultant psychiatrist is expected to actively liaise with local GPs including reviewing patients with GPs or other primary care staff in the practice or at the patients home and to support link working between practices and the team. The consultant psychiatrist responds to requests from GPs to discuss individual patients and if needed offer to review them as a fast track in the care pathway. The consultant psychiatrist also actively engages with voluntary sector organisations.

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the post holder is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team and broader services, being involved with the Team Leader and Clinical Service Lead for Southwark community services in helping to steer the development of the service.

There are regular meetings within the team to discuss the current caseload and new referrals (including discussion of complex cases). Multi-agency and partnership working is a crucial part of this role and where there is comorbid alcohol or substance use disorder, there would be local dual diagnosis input and where indicated supporting with referrals to drug and alcohol services.

The post holder may from time to time be expected to assess patients under the Mental Health Act who may need hospital admission. There will be 4 assessment teams in the borough that will be based on 2 sites in the borough each having a dedicated full time Consultant Psychiatrist. This co-location of teams will allow the post holder to work alongside another Consultant Psychiatrist with the benefits of cross cover this will allow. Clinical leadership of team is through this post in conjunction with the Clinical Service Lead.

Person Specification

Qualifications and training

Essential

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months Approved clinician status
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of eligibility
• Approved Clinician status AND Approved under S12 of the UK Mental Health Act (1983), or able to achieve these within 3 months of appointment

Desirable

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines) Experience in other relevant specialties such as in patient, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• Membership or fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists

Experience and clinical skills

Essential

• Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act (I)
• Appreciation and understanding of equitable care and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
• Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry

Desirable

• Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Personal Skills

Essential

• Ability to work in multidisciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
• Self-motivating
• Confidence in therapeutic risk taking
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal
• Willingness to innovate and problem-solve service issues

Organisational and management skills

Essential

• Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
• Commitment to working with service users on service development
• Commitment to Clinical Governance
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement

Desirable

• Formal leadership and management training
• Experience of team /service leadership

Research and Audit

Essential

• Participation in Medical Audit and Quality Improvement initiatives
• Commitment to research informed care and service development

Desirable

• Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields

Teaching and supervision

Essential

• Experience of teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Desirable

• Medical education qualification
• Approval to supervise psychiatric trainees

Other qualities

Essential

• Commitment to developing user-focused services
• Ability to get on with colleagues across disciplines and specialties
• Ability to appraise own performance

Desirable

• Experience of active involvement in service user initiatives

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

London

SE5 8AZ

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