Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist MH Crisis Assessment Hub

Job overview

JOB TITLE:     Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist – Queens Hospital & Goodmayes 24hour Mental Health Crisis Assessment Hub (across both sites)

CONTRACT:  10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)

Substantive

Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered

BASE:            Queen’s Hospital, Barking, Havering and Redbridge

University Trust (BHRUT), Rom Valley Way, Romford,                                  RM7 0AG and Block 8, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane,                          Ilford, IG3 8XJ

Main duties of the job

This is a new Consultant Adult Liaison Psychiatrist post created when an established consultant in the Psychiatric Liaison Service at Queen’s Hospital reduced their hours for work life balance and the available PAs were added to Consultant Programmed Activities in our new 24hour Enhanced Crisis Assessment Hub on the Goodmayes Hospital site.

This is funded as ten Programmed Activities (10 PAs) post with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). The post is currently filled with a locum at both sites. It is a full-time substantive post and we would consider requests for flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred.

The expectation of the post holder is to support their teams, the Directorate and the organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work.

• ●      We are kind ●      We are respectful ●      We work with our communities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist with Approved Clinician (AC) certification and is expected to contribute to the culture of relational care and collaborative working in the Psychiatric Liaison Service of Queens Hospital and the 24hour Mental Health Crisis assessment hub at Goodmayes. You will work as the senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary teams, including direct clinical care to patients.

You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. You will work clinically with patients and their families, and liaise as appropriate with Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Trust (BHRUT) colleagues, the local community mental health services, and inpatient and Home Treatment Team colleagues. You will develop good working relationships with our Emergency Department (ED) colleagues in Queens Hospital (a hospital in Barking, Havering, Redbridge University Trust) to continually improve on care delivered to our patients.

You will work alongside current consultants in Liaison at Queens; two General Adult Consultant Psychiatrists (Dr Gavin McKay and Dr Sally Daly), and Old Age Consultant Psychiatrists (Dr Stephen O’Connor and Dr Gareth Smith), plus two Specialty Doctors who work across old age and general adult psychiatry, a senior trainee in old age psychiatry and a Foundation doctor. There is also a Specialty Doctor placed in the 24hour Enhanced Crisis Assessment Hub who you would be expected to clinically supervise.

We have a Health based place of safety (HBPoS) designated Section 136 suite at Goodmayes. The Sec 136 rota covers activity for MHA assessments in the HBPoS, but there are occasions when patients who have been assessed need further consultant review and this would be within the remit of this post, arranged during times you are based at the Hub. You will also be expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments of Adults subject to Section 136 within the ED liaison setting during your ED working hours, although these presentations are not encouraged as the preferred route is via the Health Based Place of Safety. The post holder will direct, support or conduct the assessment and treatment planning for patients presenting in crisis at Queens ED or at the Crisis Assessment Hub. There is 24 hour duty doctor cover across the Liaison teams and the Assessment hub out of hours.