Overview
The consultant psychiatrist will provide clinical and managerial leadership in the Psychiatry Liaison Service (PLS). The successful applicant will join two substantive consultants to deliver consultant leadership to the team.
Responsibilities
* Provide consultant leadership to the psychiatry liaison team, including team manager, deputy team manager, nursing team, staff grade doctors, junior doctors on rotation, clinical psychologist and students.
* Conduct comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and management for acutely ill adult inpatients and complex patients across multidisciplinary team in ED and wards.
* Work within a recovery approach placing the service user at the centre of planning and decision making.
* Attend handovers to maintain good communication with other clinicians.
* Meet national and Trust KPI targets for liaison psychiatry.
* Provide support, training and clinical supervision to junior medical staff and lead multidisciplinary team.
* Lead quality improvement, audit cycles and contribute to clinical and strategic development of the Trust.
* Maintain liaison with linked inpatient adult mental health services and community teams when indicated.
Qualifications
* Essential: Registered with GMC, on GMC specialist register within 6 months of CCT, approval under Section 12(2) Mental Health Act and approved clinician status, membership or fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification.
* Desirable: Higher degree (MD or PhD).
* Essential Knowledge and Experience: Experience of clinical work in Acute Adult Psychiatry at SpR, SASG or consultant level within last 3 years, excellent working knowledge of Mental Health Act, robust experience of working with severe and enduring mental illness and risk assessment and management.
* Desirable Knowledge and Experience: Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health, experience in liaison psychiatry.
* Essential Organisational Skills: Leadership skills, ability to work as part of multidisciplinary team, ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that, commitment to working with service users on service development.
* Desirable Organisational Skills: Experience of team/service leadership, formal leadership and management training.
* Essential Clinical Skills and Supervision: Ability to work in multi-disciplinary team and provide leadership, commitment to clinical governance.
* Desirable Clinical Skills: Experience in supervising trainee doctors and SAS doctors.
* Essential Teaching: Experience in teaching junior staff, teaching medical undergraduates and postgraduates, teaching non-medical mental health professionals.
* Desirable Teaching: Medical education qualification.
* Essential Research and Audit: Experience of research work, audit and quality improvement experience.
* Desirable Research and Audit: Publications in peer‑reviewed journals.
Employer Details
East London NHS Foundation Trust, Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Lewsey Road, Luton, LU4 0DZ.
Contact: https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (opens in a new tab)
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