Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist

Job overview

The Low Intensity Team will be a single team working across the borough providing care for service users who were open to CMHTs are stable in mental state and no longer require a multi-disciplinary approach, whose medication cannot be prescribed by a GP, have been admission free for a minimum of 9 months and have secure accommodation.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of post holder

The post provides consultant medical leadership and support to LIT. The post holder would provide senior medical input into the Neighbourhood CMHTs. This is to enable continuity of care across the neighbourhood with a focus on good working relationships with GPs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Within LIT the role of the consultant is to provide medical reviews and provide clinical leadership to care coordinators for service-users with complex needs, patient centred care planning with regular care planning meetings, MDT discussions around complex needs, medical and psychosocial interventions. You would provide supervision to the multidisciplinary team as a whole and liaison with primary care.