Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist

Job overview

Community perinatal consultant role responsible for leading the DUAT team (Duty and Urgent Assessment team), and supporting the wider perinatal community team in meeting urgent mental health care needs of the perinatal population of Leeds. This is an innovative role which helps meet the L2P objectives. This is a replacement post as current post holder will be moving to another role in the service.

Main duties of the job

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care?  WE need you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

• ü  Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives ü  Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work ü  Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide.  Further information can be found here

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will lead the DUAT team and work closely with the other consultants in the perinatal community team. The community service and the inpatient MBU are based at the Mount, and are both accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. The Service has a long track record of providing high quality care and leading innovative practice.