Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry IMHT

Job overview

The post is a community consultant post in General Adult Psychiatry to join the East Staffs Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT).

The role also involves providing clinical leadership to the team as part of a collective leadership structure, and providing support and supervision as required to the Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Non-Medical Prescribers.  The post holder will have responsibility to supervise a trainee attached to the team, although as with any training post this is subject to trainee availability. Opportunities are also available in the Trust to participate in postgraduate and undergraduate education for Junior Doctors and medical students from Keele Medical School.

This role covers the East Staffs IMHT, comprising of one Primary Care Networks (PCNs); East Staffs, population 134749.  The post provides Consultant Psychiatrist cover for the whole IMHT, and the post holder will offer assessment and treatment to adults of working age with a range of mental health problems.

The Consultant will hold a caseload of approximately 100 – 150 of which the many of which will have other clinicians in the IMHT working with them.

This is part of a functionalised model in which patients requiring inpatient care, crisis or home treatment have their care temporarily transferred to the relevant pathway. You will therefore have no clinical remit outside of the IMHT.

Clinical leadership skills are essential.

Main duties of the job

Working in a multi disciplinary team and in partnership with voluntary care sector organisations and acute care settings you will

• To ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway – via individual assessments and follow up appointments, risk assessments, safeguarding needs and MDT meetings
• To be the Responsible Clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable
• To provide evidence based care
• To be recovery focused
• To provide cross-cover (emergency and prospective) for other Consultant Psychiatrist colleagues by mutual agreement
• To communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way including service users, carers and General Practitioners.
• To work within the requirements of service contracts including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards
• To fully utilise Trust IT systems as appropriate to enable fulfilment of clinical duties; including launch of the electronic prescribing system
• The post-holder will take part in out of hours duties; on call work is remunerated at 3% as well as 0.25 APAs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Full details of the job description can be found on the attached document

In addition: On Call Work:

The post holder will participate in an approx. 1:23 on call rota for Staffordshire – the rota covers both adult and older adult psychiatry on the St George’s site as well as community cover for emergencies across South Staffordshire.  The consultant is usually 3rd on call with support from a 2nd on call SAS Doctor or higher trainee and a 1st on call Junior Doctor.  Occasionally, the consultant may be 2nd on call if there is a gap on the 2nd on call rota.  Remuneration for on call work is currently via a 3 % availability supplement and 0.25 APA