Consultant Psychiatrist - Forensic Outreach Team

Job overview

The service is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to work with the forensic outreach team.  The current team provides care coordination to service users leaving secure care, but there are plans for the team to expand, with the addition of OT and psychology roles, in order to develop into a more specialist service, with enhanced consultation and inreach transition functions.

The role has been created following a restructure.  Currently there is funding for 8PAs but it is anticipated that there will be the option to increase to 10 PAs following the allocation of funding for a WTE consultant by the provider collaborative.  Additional PAs may be negotiable for roles within medical directorate or medical education.

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

• Consultant psychiatrist/ RC for up to 85 outpatients (informal/community treatment orders and conditional discharges)
• Collaborate with statutory and non-statutory organisations involved in the support and risk management of service users.
• Participate in section 117 pre-discharge meetings and support service users to make the transition from inpatient to community environments.
• Provide consultation, risk assessment and management advice to acute colleagues (frequency about 1-2 per month).
• Provide excellent clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team to include attending their MDT, crib and formulation meetings.
• Deliver high quality efficient and effective care for service users working in a trauma informed collaborative way.
• Teach, train and supervise junior medical staff and other professionals
• Comply with the requirements of the GMC and Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Contribute to the wider functions of the trust including governance, appraisal, quality improvement
• The post holder will join the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust general adult on-call rota and will be third on-call.