Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
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.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Post and Specialty:
Consultant Psychiatrist in Children and Adolescent Inpatient, Brookside Unit and the young person’s Home Treatment Team.
This is a replacement full-time post of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).
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 will be 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
The successful candidate will be committed to establishing a culture of relational care and collaborative working across the inpatient unit and home treatment team. You will work as a senior clinical lead in the multidisciplinary team and provide direct clinical care to patients. You are expected to demonstrate clinical and strategic leadership and provide supervision to clinicians where appropriate. You will work clinically with young people and their families, and work closely with community CAMHS colleagues in the care of young persons within the service, particularly from the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Havering. The post holder will also be expected to take a lead on emergency Mental Health Act assessments of CAMHS cases in A&E and the Section 136 suite as required.
Working for our organisation
NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people. We are committed to delivering the best careto the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.
We have an excellent reputation for research and quality development, this encouraged innovation, better ways of working and improved delivery of care. Joining us will offer you access to training opportunities, Continuing Professional Development, peer support groups, and a robust appraisal system. We can also offer professional mentoring and leadership training to suit your career stage and encourage your development.
NELFT Benefits:
·Relocation expenses
·Career Development and training
·Just & Compassionate Culture
·Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
·Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
·Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
·Employee Assistance Programme
·Health & Wellness initiatives
·11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few
·Retail Discounts
·Flexible working and agile working
·Cycle to work scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
General Duties
1. To organise and prioritise your own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
2. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and
3. adhere to them.
4. To ensure effective risk management at clinical and team level.
Clinical skills
5. To assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes.
6. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
7. To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
8. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
9. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT •
10. Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it.
Experience
Essential criteria
11. •Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
12. •Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds.
13. •Working with interpreters and translators
Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. •Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidence-based treatment interventions.
15. •An understanding of leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
16. Excellent clinical skills
17. 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:
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
21. 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.