Fixed term Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)NHS
Job summary
This post is for a fixed-term, full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.
This is a 8PA Consultant Psychiatrist post at the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 1. 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.
Job description
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
About us
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatientbased services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skillsand interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme inEurope, the Middle East and China,
The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.