Overview
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This is an exciting opportunity to join a team of dedicated consultants and other members of the multidisciplinary teams to help shape a modernising mental health service, which has been transformed following recent changes in community settings and inpatient provision. The consultant will work on the Inpatient Unit at Laureate hospital, which is on the site of Wythenshawe Hospital in south Manchester. The new post holder will take the Responsible Clinician role for Blake ward, an 8-bedded unit, which will accrue 6 programmed activities. There will be opportunities to combine this post if 10 PA’s or more are desired from the incoming consultant.
A high proportion of patients admitted to the ward suffer with psychosis and are detained under a section of the Mental Health Act. The consultant is expected to attend daily reviews on the ward and daily ward rounds. They will provide leadership and medical input, fulfil the role of the Responsible Clinician, be involved in training resident doctors and medical students, and engage in clinical management, audit and governance.
Responsibilities
* Job share with another part time consultant.
* Provide clinical leadership for the ward team and trainees.
* The ward has 17 beds and patients can be admitted from across the trust’s patch.
* The patient split will be 8+1, on the basis that new admissions will fall alternately to each consultant.
* Conduct daily ward reviews and ward rounds, support the team to complete CPA.
* Undertake assessments of admissions to the service.
* Assist the team to diagnose and formulate management plans in all presentations.
* Assessment and management of risk including vulnerability, suicide risk, health and safety risks, and risk of harm to others.
* Coordinate care with input from pharmacists.
* Preparation of Mental Health Review Tribunal and Managers’ Hearings reports and attendance at subsequent hearings.
* Preparation of consent to treatment paperwork and other MHA work such as section 17 leave, section renewals and CTOs if required.
* Work in a collaborative way with multidisciplinary teams including external partners.
* Work in partnership with psychiatrists from partner providers such as Forensic and Rehabilitation Psychiatrists.
About the Trust
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 staff across more than 122 locations, delivering inpatient and community-based mental health care for people across Greater Manchester and beyond.
Location: Laureate hospital, on the site of Wythenshawe Hospital, South Manchester.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Clinician with current GMC registration.
* Experience in inpatient psychiatry and leadership roles.
* Ability to provide guidance and supervision to junior medical staff and students.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Part-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Ankur Kumar, Job title: Clinical Lead Inpatients, Email: ankur.kumar@gmmh.nhs.uk
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