Consultant Psychiatrist - Low Secure Forensic Service, Leeds

Job overview

The service is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist with experience in forensic psychiatry to work within the low secure male mental illness acute assessment and treatment ward.  This is a new post following a restructure, and the provision of dedicated ward based consultants.

This is a less than full time post at 0.8 WTE, with a ratio of 6 PA clinical to 2PA supporting professional activities .  It is anticipated that the post can attract additional PAs via the medical directorate.

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

• Have RC responsibilities for up to 12 male inpatients detained on restricted and unrestricted sections of the MHA
• Provide access assessments on behalf of the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
• Provide risk assessment and management advice for colleagues in acute services.
• It is anticipated that the frequency of assessments would be about 2 per month.
• Provide excellent clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team to stabilise acute mental illness and manage risk.  Service users will have divergent pathways including remission to prison, transfer to the rehabilitation ward and in some cases direct discharge to the community.
• 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
• The post holder will join the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust general adult on-call rota and will be third on-call.