Consultant Psychiatrist - Psychiatric Intensive Care and ECT Service

Job overview

The post-holder will be Consultant Psychiatrist to Greyfriars PICU at Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.   Greyfriars is a 10-bed purpose built PICU for working-age adults. The unit is mixed sex, accommodating 3 female service users in a dedicated area of the ward, as well as an interchangeable accessible bedroom.

2PA within the job-plan will be dedicated to our ECT service, supporting an expansion of the service.

This role can be linked with the Consultant Psychiatrist - Specialist Community Forensic Team; if you would like to be considered for both roles please state this on your application - there is no need to apply for both roles.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will provide senior medical leadership and responsibility for all patients on the PICU.  The unit works exclusively with patients under the Mental Health Act, and the post-holder will be the Responsible Clinician (RC).  They will lead their medical team of Specialty and Resident doctors, working collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary team, patients and their families to ensure safe and effective care-delivery.  The Consultant will work closely with operational management colleagues, the acute inpatient wards and with the Crisis Resolution/ Home Treatment Team and the Community Recovery Teams.  This is to ensure that admissions are purposeful and productive, enabling their patients to be stepped down from intensive psychiatric care and return home as soon as possible.

There is a well-established ECT service at Wotton Lawn Hospital, which is accredited under the RCPsych ECTAS scheme.  The service has also been recognised by the RCPsych for its innovative ‘ECT Café’ – This was launched in 2024 to enable patients and carers and NHS colleagues to have collaborative conversations about ECT, to ask questions and share experiences.  The PICU element of this role will support an expansion of service delivery and continuous improvement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Act as Responsible Clinician for patients under the MHA.
• Develop comprehensive management plans in consultation with the MDT and community colleagues.
• Liaison with acute inpatient wards for potential PICU admissions.
• Clinical Supervision of Resident doctors, SAS doctor and Advanced Clinical Practitioner.
• Contribute to clinical governance and quality improvement.
• Support local and national priority to reduce inpatient length of stay.
• Delivery of 1 ECT session per week and cross-cover for other ECT Consultants.
• Contribute to continuous development of the ECT service and maintain accreditation.