Locum Consultant

Job overview

There is the opportunity to work for the H&F CAHTT as a part-time locum consultant psychiatrist-6PA for 6 months with possibility to extend to one year. There are possibilities to extend to full time with fixed term role in other services. We are a dynamic diverse service that delivers high quality care in the community to those in mental health crisis and resident in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

The CAHTT works to the standard model, assessing patients presenting in crisis, offering intensive home treatment where appropriate, gatekeeping potential admissions into local adult local service beds, in reaching into inpatient environments to expedite and support early discharge. In working hours there is also the requirement for medical input and oversight to assess people managed in our dedicated Health Based Place of Safety (HBPoS).

Referrals are received from the Single Point of Access (including 111), other secondary care teams, inpatient services, MHRRS workers, IAPT. Assessments are typically undertaken at the Claybrook Centre or patient’s homes although can be other health care settings. During office hours the H&F CAHTT senior doctors are responsible for providing the medical assessments for all S136 presentations to the H&F HBPoS.

This role will associated with the provision of direct clinical supervision for both the MDT and medical team as part of an established and senior consultant body.

Main duties of the job

This post offers excellent general adult psychiatry experience in the community. The clinical presentations are very varied and there is a particular emphasis on creative effective management of complex situations. Forming effective relationships within the team and with families/carers is essential. The role of the consultant psychiatrist will lean on your experience as a senior clinical leader and significant clinical experience will be required. You will form an integral part of the Crisis Service, working closely with the team manager and other consultants to lead and continue to develop an excellent service. You will be providing clinical input into HBPoS as well.

Your role will be central to the support and provision of effective care within the team. Your role will be both to see complex patients and to support the team to manage them as part of a consistent, trauma informed approach. You will coproduce formulations, crisis care plans and risk assessments. You will be often be central to reflecting on the need for patients to be admitted, to be referred for mental health act assessments and be central to those assessments. You will be initiating and monitoring existing and new treatment regimens with appropriate physical health oversight, often titrating inpatient regimes into those ore appropriate for longer term community treatment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.