Job overview
The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) aims to provide a more enhanced service for people diagnosed with serious mental illness and to deliver evidence-based interventions and care whilst increasing service user and carer satisfaction. AOT adopts an assertive and proactive way of working, utilising a whole-team approach to provide continuity of care and encourage creativity in engagement and positive risk taking. The AO multidisciplinary team provides most interventions from within the team and delivers care wherever is required and most appropriate.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team. They will work with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care is provided that supports the whole healthcare system. The postholder will work with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives.
Working for our organisation
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatientbased services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skillsand interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme inEurope, the Middle East and China,
The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will provide clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team. They will work with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care is provided that supports the whole healthcare system. The postholder will work with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives. Please see job description and person specification for further details
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
1. Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months Approved clinician status
2. Included on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of eligibility
3. Approved Clinician status AND Approved under S12 of the UK Mental Health Act (1983), or able to achieve these within 3 months of appointment
4. Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
Desirable criteria
5. Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines) Experience in other relevant specialties such as in patient, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
6. In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
7. Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
8. Membership or fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists
Experience and clinical skills
Essential criteria
9. Excellent knowledge in specialty
10. Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
11. Good oral and written communication skills in English
12. Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
13. Significant experience in risk assessment and management including positive risk taking
14. Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
15. Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
16. Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Teaching, Academic and leadership
Essential criteria
17. Experience of teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate level.
18. Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership, working collaboratively and effectively with others in a multidisciplinary team and the wider trust and community
19. Leadership and management experience.
20. Participated in continuous professional development
21. Participated in research or service evaluation.
22. Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
23. Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
Desirable criteria
24. Formal training or qualifications in supervision
25. Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
26. Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
27. Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications
28. Has led quality improvement projects leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients