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Job overview
JOB TITLE: Consultant Old Age Inpatient Psychiatrist –
Stage Ward
CONTRACT: 8 Programmed Activities (8 PAs)
Substantive or Fixed Term (as preferred)
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Cook Ward, Goodmayes Hospital; Barley Lane; Ilford; IG3 8XJ
The job description is pending royal college approval.
Main duties of the job
Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for functional and dementia care.
This is a less than fulltime position that has been available for some time and is covered by a locum. It is an 8 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with 6 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
The expectation of the post holder is to support their team, department and organisation to follow the Trust’s Values in their day-to-day work; we are kind, we are respectful and we work with our communities.
Working for our organisation
This less than full-time post is for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position on an Older Adult Acute Ward for men (Stage Ward) with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary inpatient team.
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder will be part of the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Mental Health Services in NELFT. The on-call covers Adult and Older Adult services. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. The Trust also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota with an approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months, with all Section 12 approved doctors expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be a Consultant Older Adult Psychiatrist with Approved Clinician (AC) certification committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working on the unit. You will work as the Consultant for a multidisciplinary team including direct input to clinical cases. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with older adult men and their families and liaise as appropriate with community older adult consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop the links with our acute Trust Emergency Departments, inpatient and community geriatric services and NELFT community mental health services for older people to continually improve our services.
We are currently piloting innovative ways of working with our clinical skill mix to support the best care to patients; we have a number of Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians in training and there is an expectation that when qualified they too will hold clinical responsibility for a caseload from the inpatient cohort. The successful candidate to this post would have an important role in shaping and supporting this pilot. The proposal is for the MPAC Consultant Psychologist associated with two Elderly Wards will be the Responsible Clinician for a case load across both wards. They will work closely with the consultant psychiatrists to provide clinical leadership and MDT working, and they will also provide some continuity of care into the community to support better pathway working and reduce readmissions and length of stay for more complex patients.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register in Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT). Approved Clinician status/ eligibility
Knowledge
Essential criteria
2. Comprehensive understanding of biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders
3. A range of evidence-based treatment approaches.
4. Awareness of NHS and NELFT strategic priorities and clinical governance.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
5. Excellent diagnostic and therapeutic skills for adult mental health
6. Strong verbal and written communication.
7. Demonstration of Clinical leadership across various forms of service delivery
8. Competence in diverse cultural contexts and working with interpreters
Leadership
Essential criteria
9. Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams and build relationships with partner teams/organisations
10. Ability to manage time and workload effectively.
Teaching
Essential criteria
11. Experience training junior doctors and other professionals.
Academic Skills
Essential criteria
12. Willingness to engage in research and quality improvement methodology
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
13. Enthusiasm, integrity, flexibility, resilience under pressure
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
14. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
15. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
16. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
17. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.