Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)

Job overview

This post is for a fixed-term, full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.

This is a 10PA Consultant Psychiatrist post at the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 2. This is one of 3 teams that comprise the overall Southwark Assertive Outreach and Rehabilitation Team (AORT).

The rehabilitation team serves non-forensic Southwark mental health patients in supported placements and residential care. It offers specialist care for people with severe mental illness, many of whom have co-morbid conditions (substance misuse, personality disorder), with significant impairment of functioning, treatment resistance and complex needs in multiple domains requiring a high level of support; who may be difficult to engage and/or have gone through multiple episodes of inpatient treatment or protracted admissions, and who may pose risks to self and others. The service has a clear focus on recovery and maximising independence, and promoting successful step down to less supported care.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of post holder

The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and clinical input.

They are described further and fully in the Job Description.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main duties: • To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team • To take Consultant and where necessary RC responsibility for patients in a range of supported settings in the community • To provide RC responsibility and Section 12 cover to the patients under your care where detention under the Mental Health Act is required, either for admission under an inpatient service (when RMO responsibility will be transferred) or Section 37/41 of the MHA and for Section 17A, Community Treatment Orders • To work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti-discriminatory practice • To liaise with external placement providers on the care of patients in the borough • To liaise with Consultant Psychiatrists working in the community and inpatient units concerning transfer of patients. • Liaison with General Practitioners concerning physical health, CPA and discharges • To provide active leadership in planning accommodation moves • To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness • To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments • To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals • In conjunction with the Team Leader, will help to represent the unit at CAG and care pathway meetings and other internal and external meetings where needed. • To provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover including under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Southwark during working hours • To keep up-to-date with all developments in research and treatment around community/rehab care pathways and community mental health care • To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations. • To undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed • To work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care