Job overview
We're passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people's recovery. We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist following the review of our medical workforce and service transformation to join the NEW CMHT team.
The post-holder will work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to drive quality improvement initiatives, enhance patient safety, engage with carers, and deliver psychoeducation to patients. This is a dynamic role for someone passionate about improving community based care.
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The post holder will provide medical input and leadership to the NEW CMHT with responsibility for patients from surgeries in the Calne and Marlborough area with a population of approximately 42000 of all ages. The post holder will work with adults of working age with a colleague within the CMHT working with Older Adults and a separate Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service providing input to that age group
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• Regular attendance at the team MDT meetings.
• Assessment and treatment of outpatients in clinics. To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
• liaise with the Intensive and Inpatient services as appropriate to facilitate handover of clients between services. Involvement in supervision and training of medical students, resident doctors, Specialist Registrars and multidisciplinary colleagues, non-medical prescribers.
• contribute to service development, management and business planning through local and Trust wide meetings. To provide medical and AC responsibility for patients from designated GP practices.
• Assessment of outpatients in clinics with advice to GPs regarding medication and other treatments. Routine clinical care through out-patients with an average of 1-2 new patient contacts and 4-6 follow up appointments per week. Telephone advice to GPs. Home visits or reviews in GP practices if clinically indicated. To liaise with other parts of the service, GPs, non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
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 and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this post.
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.
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