Overview
The team are based at Parkside Community Mental Health Centre, Middlesbrough. The Consultant will be expected to provide committed, proactive and responsive clinical leadership working with other staff to provide a treatment and intervention service for those individuals suffering from chronic or severe mental health conditions in Parkside and similarly into the EIP Team.
The Consultant will provide medical input to the Treatment and Intervention team and EIP team, patients and review clinics are located at Parkside. The Consultant will also undertake joint reviews with other team members for complex, unstable and high-risk patients. They will be fully involved in the personalised care planning process. They will be expected to provide clinical support and supervision to the team in conjunction with the Team Manager, Advanced Practitioners and Psychologists. They will attend Huddle, Supercell and team meetings. The Treatment and intervention team is able to obtain expert advice from Trust-wide specialist services which include a Tertiary Treatment and intervention team Service, an ADHD service, the Autism Spectrum Assessment Team, the Perinatal Team and the eating disorder service. The Consultant will provide committed, proactive and responsible leadership working with the Community Treatment and Intervention Team and EIP team.
Responsibilities
* Attend the Daily Huddle and weekly Supercell meetings where decisions are made about patient care and the management plan.
* Undertake assessments for new patients and follow up and review patients by engaging with the Model Line process, provide a diagnosis and treatment plan.
* Attend and fully contribute to formulation meetings and care plan review meetings.
* Act as Responsible Clinician for patients on a Community Treatment Order (CTO) and MOJ order.
* Be responsible for Mental Health Act Assessments in the community and very occasional Section 136 assessments.
* Provide appropriate supervision to Junior Medical Staff and Non-Medical Prescribers in the team.
* Provide medical input to the Treatment and Intervention and EIP teams, with clinics located at Parkside; undertake joint reviews for complex cases and high-risk patients.
* Support supervision of Specialty doctors and Foundation doctors, and supervise Nurse Prescribers in the team.
* Engage with the Model Line process and contribute to personalised care planning and formulation with the team.
* Share in engagement with expert advisory services from Trust-wide specialist teams as needed.
On-call and Coverage
Frequency of on call is 1:18; the on-call rota covers all the mental health units in Teesside (AMH and Mental Health Services for Older People), CAS (Crisis Assessment Suite - based at Roseberry Park Hospital) and the acute hospitals in Teesside (North Tees and James Cook University Hospital). It also covers MHA assessments in the community, assessments at the Police station and crisis teams.
Organization and Context
We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.
We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.
Psychiatrists are essential contributors to our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).
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