Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, a CQC Outstanding rate organisation, is looking for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our fantastic Urgent Care Assessment Team for the South of the county, based in Northampton.
We are offering a £40,000 welcome bonus to the successful candidate, paid over the first two years in post, along with the full NHS benefits package. For further information on the benefits package and joining the Trust, please refer to the attached Candidate Pack.
24‑hour, seven‑day service. UCAT will undertake mental health assessments following referrals from recognised sources (as per operational policy) and will respond to the needs of the home‑treatment caseload. The service includes acting as a gatekeeper to acute inpatient care, providing rapid response and intensive community‑based interventions, addressing social issues surrounding crisis, adopting an assertive approach to engagement, offering practical problem‑solving help, administering and supervising medication, and ensuring that care is linked to further continuing care.
Primary Objectives Of The UCAT Are:
* Offer an assessment service for residents of Northamptonshire who, immediately prior to the team’s involvement, have been assessed as requiring admission to hospital;
* Provide intensive community‑based treatment to clients in the acute phase of mental illness, thus diminishing the need for hospital admission;
* Facilitate early discharge from hospital where hospital admission has already been necessary;
* Secure appropriate follow‑up care for the client once the alleviation of the acute phase of mental illness has occurred;
* Be fully integrated into the Northamptonshire mental health systems and the community as a whole.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading or contact Medical Workforce. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Seniority level
* Mid‑Senior level
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* Contract
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* Consulting
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