Responsibilities
The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites. Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards and elderly care wards and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.
Benefits of joining the team
* The opportunity to develop a special interest within liaison - we have someone into each of brain injury / T&O links, autism, NEAD, DKA / T1DE, dementia pathways and palliative care.
* No out of area bed use and over the last 6 months our bed waits have vanished.
* A large and well-established MDT who are great at the risk assessment work and only involve Consultant when needed.
* Various service development / QI in our team including massive improvement in our KPIs this year, ED triage and a proposal to expand our offer to support HIUs.
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services. CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme.
We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees.
We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.
There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a just a snapshot:
* NHS pension scheme
* Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics
* Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
* Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
* Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline
* Staff networks and support groups
* Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism
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