There is a vacancy for a full-time (10PA) consultant post to work in Cedar Ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at West Park Hospital in Darlington. This is a replacement post and an exciting opportunity to be part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team working in a dynamic and highly specialised environment.

Cedar Ward is one of two PICUs within the trust. The other PICU is Bedale Ward and this is located at Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough. Cedar Ward takes referrals for patients based in the geographical areas of Durham, Darlington, Easington, Northallerton and Harrogate. Bedale Ward takes referrals from patients based in Teesside (Hartlepool, Stockton, Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough), York and Scarborough.

The main inpatient beds for the South Durham locality are located at West Park Hospital. There are two wards admitting patients with acute mental health problems at West Park Hospital (Maple and Elm Wards). These inpatient wards will provide the inpatient psychiatric care to the acutely unwell clients from Darlington and South Durham areas.

West Park Hospital also has 15 bedded Willow Ward for Rehabilitation Psychiatry.

Main duties of the job

Cedar Ward is a 10 bedded in-patient unit, located at West Park Hospital, Darlington. Cedar Ward provides psychiatric intensive inpatient care to acutely unwell and disturbed female and male clients, aged 16-65 years. It provides intensive care for all clients requiring a high level of care from the County Durham, Northallerton and Harrogate area. The unit includes a seclusion room and clients generally have to be detained under the Mental Health Act prior to admission.

Cedar Ward provides a multi-disciplinary service for people whose psychiatric or psychological condition requires them to be treated in a controlled environment, with a higher ratio of staff to patients, for the shortest period of time their condition allows. The unit emphasises multidisciplinary team working, recognising that the complex clients it serves, require efficient, effective, collaborative approaches to assessment, formulation and treatment planning. The unit is committed to Force Reduction drivers, both local and national and to enhancing the client experience of care. This involves leadership partnerships with psychiatry, psychology and nursing staff and an emphasis is placed on Positive Behavioural Support, encompassing least restrictive practice, therapeutic restrictive practice, therapeutic risk and highly skilled prescribing.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

Were committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We wont rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to the majority of our mental health teams. Our medical staffing shortage puts strain on services and puts strain on workforce wellbeing and costs extend beyond the financial. 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).

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for further information on this post. Please note this post has been approved by The Royal College.

Person Specification

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA

Desirable

• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning

Essential

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit.

Desirable

• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change.

Leadership

Essential

• Reflects on own performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback.
• Able to influence and persuade to improve services
• Able to take on leadership role in multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of structure and management of the NHS and the Trust.
• Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology OR able to achieve within one year of appointment
• Able to adapt to and lead service change.

Desirable

• Able to take on a leadership role outside the multidisciplinary team.
• Understanding of NHS & wider health economy and its implications for the work of the Trust.
• Trained to standard equivalent to level 2 in TEWV Trust Quality improvement system

Qualifications

Essential

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.

Desirable

• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Experience
• MRCPsych

Eligibility

Essential

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry OR included within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable

• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Experience

Essential

• Describe your clinical experience relevant to this job role

Desirable

• Any other experience that may be applicable

Employer details

Employer name

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Park Hospital

Edward Pease Way

Darlington

County Durham

DL2 2TS

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