Consultant Psychiatrist Hull East & West GA CMHT

Job overview

We are recruiting for a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist to join our General Adult community services covering Hull East and Hull West CMHT.

The service covers a total population of approximately 175,729 and accepts young people and adults with all psychiatric illnesses in the age range of 14-65. The team covers an area of high socioeconomic deprivation, with a very high proportion of young people with NEET status (not in employment, education or training).

Hull East and Hull West Community Mental Health Team works according to the New Ways of Working Model, with the Consultant providing consultation to care coordinators. The team has a full complement of Care Co-ordinators, Social Workers and Clinical Support Nurses. The team has an active in-house training programme and is increasingly family orientated in its overall approach to complement individual support, relapse prevention and other Therapies.

Main duties of the job

The team expects to receive on average 30 new referrals a week. The referrals can come from the GP, triaged by Mental Health Triage and Assessment Team, and Acute Mental Health Wards It is expected that all team members (apart from the support workers) carry roughly equivalent numbers of cases as care co-ordinators.

The consultant psychiatrist is expected to carry a compact caseload of the most complex and unstable cases but will also be available at short notice to provide consultation and advice to other team members, although they are not required to act as care co-ordinator.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a consultant working for Hull East and West CMHT, you will have responsibility for the provision of safe and effective care and treatment. You will share the vision of integrated and multi-disciplinary working and actively engage in the development of the service through research and support.

The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.

The ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport is essential.

Please read our attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information on our exciting role available.