We are seeking a permanent full‑time (10 PA) General Adult Psychiatrist to join the Telford & Wrekin Community Mental Health Services.
You will work with a well‑established multi‑disciplinary team to provide timely & comprehensive assessment, interventions & treatments to service users & their families/carers.
This post enables dedicated consultant input into one of our four integrated community mental services, providing community care & treatment, with the facility for rapid assessment of referred patients, flexible review of complex patients & timely discharge in liaison with GPs. Service users will present with a range of mental health difficulties & needs.
You will offer clinical services to the community working within both local & national guidelines.
You will provide medical leadership within a collective leadership model.
The consultant psychiatrist is not expected to be the lead professional/key worker for all the service users on their caseload. However, in cases where there is a service user need or where there is no need to involve any other professional from the multi‑disciplinary team, this may be required.
Main duties of the job
* To ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway – via individual assessments and follow‑up appointments.
* To be the responsible clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable.
* To provide evidence‑based care.
* To be recovery focused.
* To provide cross‑cover (emergency and prospective) for other consultant psychiatrists by mutual agreement.
* To communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way, including service users, carers and general practitioners.
* To work within the requirements of service contracts, including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards.
* To fully utilise Trust IT systems as appropriate to enable fulfilment of clinical duties, including launch of the electronic prescribing system.
* The post‑holder will take part in out‑of‑hours duties; on‑call work is remunerated at 3 % as well as 0.5 APAs.
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