Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry (Harness CMHT)NHS

Job summary

CNWL is looking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Consultant to join the Harness Community Mental health Team.

This full time position would be excellent for someone wanting to broaden their experience of community psychiatry and develop their clinical skills in a supportive and challenging environment. The team is well established with good support from senior clinical and managerial colleagues.

*Job Description pending Royal College approval*

Main duties of the job

This is a Consultant Psychiatrist replacement post working within the Harness Locality Community Mental Health Team. The post holder will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the local CMHT. The post holder will also provide mentoring and supervision as an experienced consultant.

Job description

To manage, appraise and provide professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director.

To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder, operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.

To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly through the trusts clinical information systems.

To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.

To participate in annual appraisal for consultants.

To attend and participate in the academic program of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD program.

To participate annually, as a minimum, in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernization.

To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.

To comply with the Trusts agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services

Assessment of new patients and clinical supervision of assessments carried out by other team members.

Full participation in the multidisciplinary team providing care in the community.

Senior medical responsibility for the care carried out by the Community Mental Health Team for both CPA and LPC patients.

Review and monitoring of the caseload to ensure appropriate care packages are put in place and discharges facilitated to maintain patient flow.

Contribution to the continuous development of the Community Mental Health Team, and to other parts of the Service as required.

Domiciliary visits to provide assessment and treatment services as a member of the CMHT

Domiciliary assessments in response to emergencies

Research, in terms of personal projects and clinical audits as part of clinical governance.

Involvement in joint planning of future service development.

Occasional psychiatric assessments of residents who may be in crisis in another borough.

Close liaison with the wards to facilitate admission and discharge planning.

Liaison with HTT, Psychiatric Liaison Services, AMHP services and Forensic Services in the borough.

About us

Brent Adult Mental Health Service provides a range of services for adults within community and hospital settings. Our community services have recently transformed to improve the quality of care received by people with mental health needs in their local community in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, towards provision of more integrated, personalised and place-based care.

Brent adult mental health services:o Acute in-patients (4 ward ) and PICU (13 beds) - Park Royal Centre for Mental Healtho Community Mental Health Hubs - organised in three hubs serving the three GP networks in the borough. Harness and Kilburn hubs are based at Park Royal Centre for Mental Health, Park Royal; Kingsbury and Willesden Hub is based at Fairfields House, Kingsbury.o Early Intervention Service: Fairlight Avenue, Harlesdeno Home Treatment Team (HTT): Park Royal.o Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team): Park Royal Brent Integrated Psychology and Psychotherapy Services embedded within teamso Community Forensic Service: Provided in collaboration with West London NHS Trust.o Brent Talking Therapieso Brent Community Collaboration and health inequalities teamo Mental health social team which deliver AMHP, hospital discharge, placements and complex case managemento Rethink mental health team