Consultant in Psychiatry (CMHT North)

Job overview

The North and South Community Mental Health Teams have a caseload of approximately 1,000 patients each. Each team has patients subject to CTO and conditionally discharged patients and the consultant will be the RC for an equitable proportion of these patients.

North CMHT, based at Northlands Health Centre, is a community mental health team that provides treatment and care to adults living in the North of Sheffield who have complex mental health needs.

Main duties of the job

• To provide senior medical leadership to the Community Mental Health Team
• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Medical/psychiatric assessments for care planning and risk assessment
• Formulation and delivery of appropriate pharmacological and psychological interventions to aid recovery.
• Mental Health Act assessments of patients in contact with the team as well as participation in the daytime Section 12 rota.
• Completion of administrative tasks necessary for clinical responsibilities.
• Liaison with members of other teams eg home treatment, acute wards
• Participation in the Trust wide Consultant On Call rota.
• Clinical supervision of junior medical staff, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and non-Medical prescribers
• Teaching Undergraduate Medical students

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The patients we care for include those with psychotic disorders, severe affective disorders, and personality disorders, as well as patients with co-morbid organic and/or neurodevelopmental diagnoses. We provide person-centred care that is strengths based, trauma informed, evidence-based and multidisciplinary.