Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions Consultant, Leeds
Client:
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location:
Leeds, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
79a667244f20
Job Views:
6
Posted:
02.04.2025
Expiry Date:
17.05.2025
Job Description:
We are delighted to bring to advert the post of Trust Locum Consultant Psychiatrist at Aspire in the city of Leeds - a culturally diverse city. Aspire is a city-wide, community-based First Episode Psychosis Service delivered by a specialist multidisciplinary team with input from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The service’s principles are engagement, hope, and recovery. It supports people to find their own level of recovery, fostering hope for the future and encouraging individuals to lead an ordinary life in their community.
This post has become available due to the need for maternity leave cover for the current substantive post holder and will be available between Sept and Sept.
Main Duties of the Job:
Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals: to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.
Here at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services. The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:
1. Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
2. Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
3. Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services
The post holder will work with the MDT, colleagues, and other agencies to deliver safe and effective care to patients. The service commitments are divided between the 2 consultants during the job planning process. The post holder, supported by the MDT, will provide:
1. Regular clinical reviews
2. Flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews
3. To undertake the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA care
4. Complex prescribing and review
5. Effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals, and statutory organisations
6. An expectation to work intensively and assertively with the client group
7. To contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community team
8. To work collaboratively with other services within the Trust
9. To provide professional leadership
10. To provide one hour a week protected clinical supervision to any trainees in the service for which they are the clinical supervisor
Person Specification:
Qualifications Essential Criteria:
1. Full registration with the GMC
2. Higher specialist training in WAA Psychiatry
Skills Essential Criteria:
1. Excellent communication skills
2. Track record in QIP work
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Created on 02/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom
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