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Job overview
JOB TITLE: General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist – Redbridge Home Treatment Team
CONTRACT: 10 Programmed Activities (10 PAs)
Substantive contract
Flexible working available – including job share, part-time, remote sessions considered
BASE: Tantallon House, Goodmayes Hospital, Barley Lane, Ilford, IG3 8XJ
On-call responsibilities:
The postholder participate in the Senior Psychiatrist on-call rota covering out of hours for Adult Mental Health Services in NELFT. This is currently a 1:40 rota with a 3% Category A salary supplement. There is also has a Daytime (9am-5pm) Section 136 rota (approximate frequency of 1 day every 3 months), including all Section 12 approved doctors in NELFT. The on-call Sec 136 doctor is expected to take a lead on Mental Health Act assessments in the Section 136 suite on the Goodmayes site.
The job description is pending royal college approval.
Main duties of the job
This post is for a Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist in Redbridge Home Treatment Team (BD HTT), based at Tantallon House, Goodmayes Hospital and working into the Redbridge borough of London to provide home treatment for mental health patients in crisis.
The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for mental health patients experiencing a crisis in their mental health.
In the course of your work, you will help shape service development, support staff and champion the Trust values of kindness, respect, and partnership with communities.
Working for our organisation
This is one of two full-time posts for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established Home Treatment service with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary team.
This is a full-time substantive post, and we would consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. It is a post with 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs). There are opportunities to add additional PAs for a special interest research, medical education, leadership roles etc.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the multidisciplinary team, work directly with adult patients in mental health crisis in the community, and their families, and liaise as appropriate with inpatient and community consultant psychiatrists and other health and social care partners. You will develop links across the whole mental health pathway including primary care networks in Redbridge to continually improve our services.
Redbridge Home Treatment Team (R HTT) is one of four general adult HTTs in NELFT. The aim of the service is to provide a community based alternative to hospital admission for people experiencing a mental health crisis, and to facilitate the early discharge of psychiatric inpatients. The service provides a rapid response, intensive home-based mental health service to working age adults and together with our Integrated Crisis Assessment Hub provides a Mental Health crisis function over 24 hours, 7 days per week.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
1. Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
Qualifications
Essential criteria
2. CCT or equivalent
Section 12
Essential criteria
3. Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
Specialist Register
Essential criteria
5. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
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:
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.