Consultant in General Adult Inpatient Psychiatry

Job overview

CNWL is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Consultant Psychiatrist working in our 18-bedded mixed gender ward, Shore Ward.

This full time positions would be excellent for someone wanting to broaden their experience of acute psychiatry and develop their clinical skills in a supportive and challenging environment.

Main duties of the job

The role is to provide a comprehensive assessment and treatment package of care to all patients with a view to facilitating early discharge from hospital, to work closely with colleagues in the inpatient service to continuously improve the quality of acute care, and to work with colleagues across adult mental health services in Brent to ensure a coordinated, effective and person centered care pathway.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Core Clinical responsibilities

• The postholder will be responsible for providing sole and dedicated consultant psychiatric care to people admitted to Shore Ward at Park Royal MHC. •    The postholder will provide leadership for the performance culture of the ward, ensuring best practice is employed across the facility, and that the Trust’s quality and productivity targets are met. •    The ethos of Park Royal MHC is one in which in-patient care is delivered by an integrated multi- disciplinary team with a shared sense of ownership for the ward environment as well as the clinical services provided. The postholder will adopt an active and pragmatic leadership style as a way of promoting this type of ward environment, thus ensuring collaborative working both at a clinical and an operational level. •    The postholder will be expected to participate in quality improvement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to undertake service evaluation and/or research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement. •    Together with the Matron, Ward Manager and other senior MDT colleagues the postholder will provide overall clinical leadership for the Ward Multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations for the Team, including the following:
• Medical input, consultation and clinical leadership to the ward, and overall clinical responsibility for people admitted to the unit. •    Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for people subject to the care planning (CPA) process. •    Acting as the Responsible Clinician for people admitted to Shore Ward as appropriate and undertaking associated duties and responsibilities including attending and writing reports for Mental Health Tribunals and Managers hearings. In 2017/8 47 tribunals were requested over the course of the year, resulting in 17 tribunals being completed for Shore Ward. •    Regular clinical liaison with the Community Consultants in the Psychological Medicine, Community Mental Health Teams and the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team to ensure timely discharge of patients.

Teaching and training

• An active role in the postgraduate teaching programme, which consists of a local academic meeting on Wednesday lunchtime. This meeting includes a Journal Club and case presentations. This takes place at the inpatient site – Park Royal Centre for Mental Health •    Teaching/training of medical students who regularly attend CMHT as part of their psychiatry experience, from Imperial school of medicine. Support is also given to work experience students where applicable. •    Appropriately trained consultants would be encouraged to take up the role of Educational Supervisors for core and higher trainees from the St Mary’s training scheme in Psychiatry. Candidates willing to take up this role will be supported to access relevant training and this will be included in Job Planning. •    Training and teaching of wider MDT staff with the community teams and other teams in the borough.