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Consultant in Perinatal Psychiatry-Community

Employer
Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Leeds
Salary
£88,364 to £119,133 a year Per Annum Pro Rata
Closing date
4 Apr 2023

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This is a new post. The service plans to pilot a Duty and Urgent Assessment team (DUAT) which is part of the Leeds Community Perinatal Mental Health Team. The service is being developed to clearly delineate the functions of the community team and enable the team to respond in a timely manner to urgent and emergency referrals in addition to providing close monitoring of patients who require more than weekly community contacts .The DUAT team will consist of a newly appointed consultant, 3 x band 6 mental health nurses, 1 x band 6 Occupation Therapist and a senior social worker

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of the post holder
  • Provide medical and clinical leadership to the DUAT team
  • Assessment of urgent and emergency referrals in conjunction with other members of the DUAT team
  • Hold a caseload of patients who require intensive monitoring and support(not expected to be more than 15)This may include patients discharged from the mother and baby unit and women who are risk of developing post partum psychosis
  • Provide support and clinical supervision for the duty team
  • Contribute to ongoing evaluation of the new service


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)

Career and pastoral support from SAS Tutor and SAS Advocate

Job description
Job responsibilities

This is a new post. The service plans to pilot a Duty and Urgent Assessment team (DUAT) which is part of the Leeds Community Perinatal Mental Health Team. The service is being developed to clearly delineate the functions of the community team and enable the team to respond in a timely manner to urgent and emergency referrals in addition to providing close monitoring of patients who require more than weekly community contacts .The DUAT team will consist of a newly appointed consultant, 3 x band 6 mental health nurses, 1 x band 6 Occupation Therapist and a senior social worker.

The core functions of this team will be:
  • Assessment of all the emergency referrals to the perinatal mental health service (within 4 hours)
  • Assessment of all the urgent referrals to the perinatal mental health service (within 48 hours)
  • Assessment of urgent referrals from LTHT to be seen jointly with Liaison Psychiatry
  • Patients will need to be registered with a Leeds GP
  • Management of patients who need a higher level of monitoring and support (e.g.: several contacts within a week). These will be newly referred and assessed patients who will later be transferred to the locality teams after achieving a period of stability
  • Locality perinatal teams can refer existing patients on their caseload to the DUAT if patients require a period of intensive support, with mutual agreement.
  • Monitoring of post-natal women at a high risk of developing severe mental illness. This will be on a case-by-case basis following liaison with locality perinatal teams.
  • Responsibility for the duty system. This involves taking all calls and referrals to the service. Routine referrals will be forwarded to the locality teams. All referrals will receive a telephone triage.
  • Intensive support for certain patients on discharge from MBU to facilitate early discharge and provide additional support when on leave from MBU.
  • It is anticipated that the number of patients on the caseload of the team will be around 10-15, and patients will be under the care of the team for a 2-4 week period before transfer to locality teams.
  • The service provision will be reviewed at 3 monthly intervals
  • The DUAT team will be able to access other professional input from the wider MDT such as social workers, psychologists, peer support workers, partners support, inclusion worker etc. There will also be a monthly complex case meeting led by the Psychology lead for the service.
  • The service will be Monday to Friday 9am to 5 pm.

The annual birth-rate for Leeds is 10,500.the current target for the perinatal community team is 8.6% of the birth rate. The target achieved for 2021-23 is 7.6%.it is expected that once the MMHS is fully operational the target will be achieved. The total caseload of the sector community team is 425.The service usually receives about 1 urgent /emergency referral per week.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential
  • Experience of perinatal psychiatry in community setting

Skills
Essential
  • excellent communication skills and ability to lead an MDT

Qualifications
Essential
  • MBBS or equivalent


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173-20423-MED

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