Consultant in Psychiatry - Home Treatment

Job overview

The Home Treatment Team provides short-term mental health support at home, to avoid people being admitted to hospital and reduce length of stay for people in hospital. The team works across Sheffield and provides intensive support to our service users and their carers where there has been a significant deterioration in a person’s mental health.

The Home Treatment Team is based at The Longley Centre, together with the Liaison Psychiatry service, and the urgent and crisis service, and some of our inpatient wards.  The team undertakes crisis assessments, supports and treats people in the community as an alternative to admission to hospital and promotes timely discharge back into the community.

Main duties of the job

• To provide senior medical leadership to the Home Treatment 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 CMHT, Acute wards, etc
• Clinical supervision of junior medical staff, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and non-Medical prescribers
• Teaching Undergraduate Medical students

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide senior medical leadership to the Home Treatment 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 CMHT, Acute wards, etc
• Clinical supervision of junior medical staff, Advanced Clinical Practitioners and non-Medical prescribers
• Teaching Undergraduate Medical students