Consultant Psychiatrist - Haringey Home Treatment Team

Job overview

We are really pleased to be offering this exciting full-time (10 PA) Consultant post in the Haringey Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). This post has become available due to the resignation of the previous post holder. The CRHTT provides urgent crisis assessments and intensive support aiming to avert the need for inpatient admission, when safety possible.

At North London NHS Foundation Trust we provide integrated mental health services to the people of North Central London, as well as some services regionally and nationally. We employ almost 6000 staff, which makes us one of the largest employers in our area. We provide our services to children, adults, and older people from over 20 sites. We support people to overcome the hurdles they face with their health and wellbeing. We support them to get back into the community and to live as independently as they can. We aim to give people the skills they need to look after themselves with our support in the community. When they need a higher level of care, we provide that on our wards. The wards are found at Edgware Community Hospital; Barnet General Hospital (Springwell Centre); Chase Farm Hospital; and St. Ann’s Hospital, Highgate East and Highgate West.

Main duties of the job

We provide a wide range of local and more specialist mental health services, including helping people with serious mental illness (SMI), personality disorders, drug and alcohol recovery, children’s mental health issues, dementia, eating disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD and suicide prevention. The Trust has an overall Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating as ‘Good’ from 2019 and retained the ‘good’ rating in 2022. It also runs the North London Forensic Service (NLFS), which the CQC has rated as Outstanding. The London Borough of Haringey in 2018 had an estimated population of 270, 624. It is a very diverse population with a rich history which we at BEH embrace. We are very proud of our strong community ties and the number of our staff that choose to work here who are linked within the immediate community. The St Ann’s site houses both community services and outpatient mental health services. It has a continued programme of improvement and renovation and houses the trusts headquarters, research and development site and trust library in addition to a recent new canteen. Over the past three years the Trust has invested over £20 million in redeveloping the St Ann’s site. The new hospital, Blossom Court, houses 4 wards; 3 general 18 bedded adult acute wards and Iris ward, a bespoke eating disorders ward.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership for the Crisis and Home Treatment Team. The post-holder will be expected:

• To contribute to the assessment of newly referred cases and formulate appropriate treatment plans in collaboration with colleagues in other disciplines.
• To conclude medical reviews for those on the caseload including monitoring of patient mental, physical, and psychological wellbeing, assessment and review of needs, risk assessments and monitoring, assessing of response to medication, dosage adjustments and review of potential side effects of medication.
• Management of community emergencies including home visits for those on the caseload.
• Early Discharge Facilitation assessment for patients on the wards
• Gatekeeping assessments for complex cases.
• Working with the wellbeing clinic to ensure that physical health is well monitored.
• To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures
• To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work
• To supervise and facilitate learning to medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care
• To participate in the trust-wide day-time consultant psychiatrist second on-call rota for Section 136 suite (1:32) and the Trust-wide Consultant psychiatrist on-call rota (1:32).
• To participate in the weekly team meeting and undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.
• To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.
• As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service line.