Employer Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Petherton Resource Centre Town Bristol Salary £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 01/12/2025 23:59
Consultant Psychiatrist - South Bristol Crisis Team
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Come and join a forward-thinking NHS Trust in an exciting new role as Consultant for the South Bristol Crisis Team.
This well-established team embraces a multidisciplinary approach integrating doctors, non-medical prescribers, senior nurses, a psychotherapist, and support workers.
We also work closely with our Recovery Team colleagues and the Complex Psychological Interventions service. Both services are based in the same building as the Crisis Team.
This fosters close working relationships with direct communication. We also work closely with the local Assertive Outreach Team.
The team is based at the Petherton Resource Centre, located in the Hengrove area of South Bristol.
This brand-new post was conceived and developed from a recent medical workforce implementation project. The post holder will join a fulltime Consultant Psychiatrist to expand and develop the service.
The Crisis Team is the “gate keeper” for hospital admissions. The post holder will develop close working relationships with the inpatient teams to coordinate admissions and work towards facilitated discharges.
The doctors are integral members of the team and currently comprise of one 1.0 WTE general adult Consultant.
This post will introduce further Consultant time, three days per week. The team has an F1/F2 trainee two days per week. In total, this makes for a strong, friendly and lively medical base within the team.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant will deliver direct interventions, including emergency assessment, to service users at a level of intensity according to need, including those service users who require an assertive approach who are difficult to engage.
This will include on-going assessment, diagnoses and treatment. You will provide visible and clear leadership at team level.
You will participate in gate keeping and attendance at MHA assessments where appropriate. The Consultant is expected work flexibly and to see up to 8 patients per week, this includes 1-2 urgent. The Consultant will also carry out telephone reviews when indicated.
The Consultant is expected to contribute to the development of acute care services in line with best practice and nationally accredited standards. Active participation in acute care pathways meetings identifying services users who require access to inpatient or recovery services in a timely manner as well as identifying potential discharges from the inpatient ward.
The Consultant will attend the “handover” meetings each day. You will be required to provide cross-cover to other Consultants in the Sector. The post holder will be expected to provide medical leadership and participate in strategic development within the service.
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and well‑being. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person‑centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Please note that Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust is not currently a sponsor under the GMC Sponsorship Scheme. As a result, we regret to inform you that we are unable to consider applications from individuals who require GMC sponsorship.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
* Relevant Higher Degree e.g MD,PHD,Msc or other additional clinical qualifications
* MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
* Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months of gaining CCT
* Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
* Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
* CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
Experience
* Experience of assessing and treating patients in a community setting.
* Knowledge and evidence of participation in CPD
* Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team involvement
Personal Skills
* To possess leadership skills and be able to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
* Ability to manage own time, workload and prioritise clinical work
* Ability to appraise own performance as a Consultant.
* Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills, in order to effectively work with patients, carers and staff.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Evidence of specific achievements that demonstrate leadership skills
Clinical Skills
* Ability to assess and treat psychiatric problems in Adults of working age and to deal with crisis situations.
Knowledge
* Understanding of the management skills required to function successfully as a Consultant.
* Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy and legislation.
* Knowledge of alternatives to inpatient admission care approaches
Teaching
* Commitment to and experience of undergraduate and postgraduate learning and teaching.
* Experience as an Educational Supervisor for trainees
Research and Audit
* Experience or involvement in a research project and publication.
* Experience of carrying out an audit project.
Management
* Evidence of management/leadership skills training.
* Previous management experience including that of other junior medical staff
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with ‘lived‑experience’ of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,– we are a ‘Disability Confident Employer’ offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. This includes people with a variety of disabilities and neurodivergent conditions (for example autism, ADHD, sensory, physical and learning disabilities).
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
Please apply to join us, we would love to hear from you. Any personal details you supply to us are kept safe in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Adverts normally close for application a few minutes before midnight on the closing date and we will let you know if we are offering you an interview by email via our recruitment system ‘TRAC’. We contact all applicants within 4 weeks after the closing date, so please check your emails regularly once you have submitted your application; you are welcome to contact us, via the TRAC system, if you have any queries about your application.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Dr Ben Wright Job title Medical Lead Email address benjamin.wright3@nhs.net Additional information
We would welcome the opportunity to meet with any interested candidates prior to the interviews or submission of an application.
To discuss the post further or to arrange a visit to the hospital or community facilities please contact:
Dr Benjamin Wright (Medical Lead) – benjamin.wright3@nhs.net
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