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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
Post and Specialty:
Inpatient Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for functional and dementia care.
This is funded as a 10 to 12PA position. It has been available for some time and is covered by a locum. It is a 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) post with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). There is an option to add additional PAs to offer an opportunity of adding a special interest day or further SPAs to the job plan and increasing the total to 12 PAs.
The appointee will have clinical responsibility for the care of acute elderly male and female inpatients primarily from Waltham Forest, but also Redbridge, Havering and barking and Dagenham on Woodbury Unit.
The purpose of this job description is to outline the level of responsibility and accountability of this post. This will ensure that all work undertaken by our staff is clearly identified and carried out under clear lines of accountability.
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
●We work with our communities
Main duties of the job
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 1:50 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
Working for our organisation
The post holder will be committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working on the unit. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and provide direct input to clinical cases. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with older adult male and female patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with community older adult consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop the links with our acute Trust A&E departments and geriatric services to continually improve our services.
Woodbury ward is a 21 bedded mixed ward for men and women who meet frailty criteria and have functional or organic mental health needs. The ward has a ward manager and shares a matron with the other older adult wards in NELFT (on the Goodmayes site). There is also occupational therapy, psychology, physiotherapy input onto the ward.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Training & Supervision:
1. To act as clinical supervisor to the doctors working on the unit, providing effective education, facilitating their development, and promoting high standards of medical care.
2. To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.
3. To undertake a regular appraisal and develop a personal development plan.
4. To support new staff and their integration within the team.
5. To support training across the team including opportunities for professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.
Education:
6. To provide in-service training and teaching to Medical Students, Trainee Doctors and Resident Doctors, and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
7. To engage in the weekly Academic Teaching Programme.
Administration:
8. To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and record clinical activity accurately, comprehensively and promptly.
9. The post holder will be expected to have good IT skills and to use the Trust’s electronic case record system.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT •
11. Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.
Experience
Essential criteria
12. •Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
13. •Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
14. •Working with interpreters and translators
Knowledge
Essential criteria
15. •Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
16. •An understanding of leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
17. Excellent clinical skills
18. Excellent communication skills both verbally and written
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:
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.
22. 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.