Consultant Psychiatrist in Liaison Psychiatry
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Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic, permanent, full‑time Consultant Psychiatrist in Liaison Psychiatry.
Liaison Psychiatry Service provides specialist care at Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), Princess Royal Hospital (PRH), and the community hospital of the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oswestry (RJAH).
The emphasis is to provide timely and comprehensive assessment, interventions, and treatment to service users and their families/carers, where a functional or organic mental disorder is suspected or evident. The “community” the post serves is the population within the general hospitals, regardless of their home locality.
Main duties of the job
You will: Provide a timely and flexible response to referrals, to meet the demands of the PRH/RSH hospitals.
* Work with groups of people who may attend or be admitted to the acute hospital setting (not exhaustive):
* People who have self‑harred
* People with physical and psychological consequences of alcohol/substance misuse
* Frail elderly people with possible delirium, depression, or dementia
* People with known severe mental illness, particularly when in relapse
* People admitted with primarily physical health symptoms that may also have a psychological/social cause
* Vulnerable groups including people who are homeless, experience personality difficulties, are subject to domestic abuse/violence and require comprehensive mental health assessment; assist with diagnosis, care and specialist discharge planning, risk assessment and management, including signposting to those referred to the service.
* Provide mental health related training to staff members at the hospital sites to raise awareness of mental health conditions.Work closely and in partnership with other services and organisations to contribute to a seamless service of mental health provision and the development of appropriate care pathways for onward referral of individuals in need of further assessment and support.
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