Job overview
CNWL are now looking for a permanent full-time Consultant Psychiatrist within a 12-bedded Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit dedicated to the treatment of female patients experiencing the most acute phase of their mental illness.
This post is a full time, 10 sessions per week, replacement post on Shannon Ward, at St Charles Hospital Mental Health Unit within the Kensington & Chelsea borough.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality inpatient care
Supervision, teaching and training of resident doctors, medical students, specialist nurses, other nurses and other MDT staff.
To participate actively in both departmental and Trust matters concerning Care Quality, and service evaluation projects.
Working for our organisation
Kensington and Chelsea is an inner London area with a mixed, diverse population with some of the most wealthy and most deprived areas of London. There is a high mental health morbidity and the local CCG is committed to a high spend on mental health services.
Kensington and Chelsea (K+C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults across the age range within the community and in hospital settings. These are integrated health and social care services. These are based at:
• St Charles Hospital with 8 inpatient wards; two adult PICUs, 4 adult acute wards and two Older Adult wards
• Community Mental Health Hubs (CMHH) - north and south community team bases for adult MH services including Psychology and Psychotherapy services
• South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with the liaison service, health psychology, therapies team, memory service, older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services
• Early Intervention Service
• Home Treatment Team (HTT)
• Mental Health Act Team (AMHP Team)
• Psychology and Psychotherapy Services including Clinical Psychologists embedded in the CMHHs and inpatient unit, Arts Psychotherapy, and other specialist family and individual psychotherapies
• RE-FOCUS Team (community forensic service) at Hathaway House
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities to include:
The post holder will have principal duties to provide clinical care to patients admitted to Shannon Ward. They will be supported by the MDT team that include a Middle Grade doctor, two Trust Grade doctors (core level equivalent), Occupational Therapist, activity coordinator as well as pharmacist and psychologist.
The post holder will provide joint leadership with the ward manager, for the performance culture of the ward, ensuring best practice is employed across the ward, and that the Trust’s quality and productivity targets are met.
The post holder will adopt a pragmatic leadership style as a way of promoting this type of ward environment, thus ensuring collaborative working both at a clinical and an operational level.
The post holder will be expected to participate in Quality Improvement and service evaluation projects and will be encouraged to undertake any research which may be relevant to either short or long-term service improvement.
Together with the Matron and ward manager the post holder will provide overall clinical leadership for the Ward Multidisciplinary team as well as direct clinical assessments and consultations for the Team, including the following:
• Medical input, consultation and clinical leadership to the ward, and overall clinical responsibility for patients admitted to the unit.
• Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for patients subject to the care planning (CPA) process.
• Responsible Clinician with responsibilities of attendance at and report-writing for Mental Health Tribunals and Managers hearings.
• Regular clinical liaison with the Acute wards, Community Consultants in the forensic services & Community Mental Health Teams and the Home Treatment Team to ensure timely progress towards discharge of patients.
Teaching Commitments to include:
An active role in the postgraduate teaching programme, which consists of a local academic meeting on Wednesday lunchtime. This meeting includes a Journal Club and case presentations.
Teaching of medical students who regularly attend ward rounds as part of their psychiatric experience. Support is also given to work experience students when applicable.
Supervision of the resident doctors allocated to the team. This must meet Royal College of Psychiatrists’ standards of clinical and educational supervision.
We have four local tutors who support the trainees in the area of Kensington Chelsea and Westminster. All resident doctors in training will meet with their tutor regularly, attend the Resident doctors meeting with local Consultants and management and attend a Balint group.
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Applicant requirements
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.
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