Consultant Psychiatrist East Brighton Neighbourhood Mental Health Team
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We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the East Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) formerly known as East Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) in Brighton & Hove. You will be joining a mutually supportive, friendly and enthusiastic team with a real passion for what we do.
Brighton and Hove community services are split into three main teams – East, West and Central NMHT. Each NMHT has a geographical patch determined by alignment to a small number of GP surgeries, facilitating good liaison with our Primary Care colleagues. This post will be in Ardingly Court Cluster. We also have strong links with a large array of third sector organisations in Brighton and Hove.
We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees. We also provide training for medical students and Physician Associate students from BSMS.
We are a large multi‑disciplinary community mental health team, providing specialist assessments and treatment to patients presenting with a range of complex and unstable mental health and social needs.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist medical/psychiatric assessment and evidence‑based treatment to patients referred to the service.
* Provide clinical supervision to the HST and informal advice and supervision to non‑medical members of the team.
* Fulfil the duties of Responsible Clinician for patients subject to Community Treatment Orders, including attendance at Mangers hearings and tribunals.
* Mental Health Act assessments for patients on the team caseload.
* Liaison with inpatient Responsible Clinicians.
* Liaison with the forensic team, drug and alcohol services and risk panel as required.
Qualifications & Expectations
* Excellent clinical skills using a bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
* A wide range of specialist and sub‑specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
* The ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
* Commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
* The ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings huge health‑related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working – for example, home‑working, part‑time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
About the Trust
We love you to join our Trust, rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree – in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Other Key Survey Results
* 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work.
* 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the in their team.
* 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles.
Seniority level
Mid‑Senior level
Employment type
Part‑time
Job function
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Industries
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