Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

Job overview

The role includes providing the RC cover, focusing on consultant level assessment of any new admissions that have taken place, actively supporting an effective interface between the ward, HTT and the community teams to facilitate safe early discharges from the inpatient unit, actively engaging with the relevant community teams, providing clinical leadership for the MDT on the ward, leading ward and management rounds and undertaking relevant reviews of inpatients, supporting the bed management processes and maintaining high quality care for the patients on the ward.

Joshua ward has a full multi-disciplinary team. In addition to the inpatient consultant psychiatrist the medical team consists of:

• 8 WTE higher trainee doctor (0.2 working in the community team)
• 1 WTE core trainee
• 0.8 to 1 WTE GPVTS trainee (depending on rotations)

The ward has an average of 15 admissions per month. There is management support from the Associate Clinical Director (Dr Victoria Cohen), who reports to the Clinical Director (Dr Olivier Andlauer).

Main duties of the job

This is a full-time post. The post-holder will provide consultant leadership, supervision, and support to the inpatient team. They will work with the ward manager and modern matron to deliver high quality inpatient treatment to the population of male adults living in West Hackney and who require inpatient admission.

They will contribute to the overall management and service development of Joshua Ward. The post-holder will coordinate leave and cover arrangements for the patients they have RC responsibility for, with the other inpatient consultants, and occasionally with community consultant psychiatrists. We are keen to develop clinical and medical leadership.

The post-holder will:

• Contribute as a senior member of staff to service development within Joshua Ward
• Offer consultations, assessments & appropriate treatments to people living in City & Hackney and requiring a hospital admission.
• Develop close links with other Acute Wards and Community teams, including newly established Neighbourhoods Mental Health Teams.
• Work with service users to develop service user input to service delivery and development.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues, notably resident doctors.
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and the implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.