Job overview
The appointee will provide Consultant leadership and psychiatric input into the acute inpatient unit at the Cavell centre. They will work with the multidisciplinary team and establish good liaison and links with the community teams. Four sessions are protected for special interest to be negotiated in job planning. These may include specific management or teaching responsibility or research.
Main duties of the job
This post consists of Programmed Activities ( PAs) which includes PAs of direct clinical care and PAs for supporting activities and CPD. The consultant will be responsible for the care of patients admitted to the inpatient unit. The consultant will also work with well-established services alongside other medical and non-medical colleagues. The appointed consultant will provide strong leadership to the teams and drive further service developments in acute care. Junior doctor support in the form of Specialty doctors, higher trainee or a core psychiatric trainee is provided.
The successful candidate will be working alongside consultant colleagues in the North of the County. The ward is co-located on the Cavell Centre with three other Psychiatric Inpatient Units and the Crisis Home Treatment Team; all of which have substantive consultant Psychiatrists in post. These consultants form a key part of a multiprofessional clinical leadership team across the Wards at the Cavell Centre which provide a source of mutual professional support and collaborative working.
The post will involve close working relationship with modern matron, nurse specialists and team managers. A consultant mentor is offered to all new consultants as part of a well established package of support and engagement with the wider consultant body across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
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