Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 455-ME341-C
- Employer
- Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Islington Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team & MHCAS
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Employer heading
Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - Islington Crisis Team & Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
The post offered is that of a full-time locum Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry covering Islington Crisis Resolution & Home Treatment Team (ICRHTT) 5PA, and the Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service, (MHCAS) 5PA.
Both services will be co-located at The Highgate Mental Health Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill, London, N19 4NX from mid-April 2024.
Integral to the ICRHTT sessions is liaison to Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House, 32 Drayton Park, London, N5 1PB and Crisis Single Point of Access (C-SPA)
This is a full-time locum position for 10 Programmed Activities.
The position may suit one full time or two part time consultants
The role of the consultant is to be the clinical lead of the teams and to ensure high, quality, patient-centred, effective, safe and efficient care is delivered by the team.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be the clinical lead for the community crisis pathway in Islington. This pathway currently falls within the Islington borough division of the Trust. There is another consultant who works 4 sessions with the team and two experienced associate specialists.
In Islington the community crisis pathway consists of a single CRHTT, Drayton Park Women’s Crisis House and Highbury Grove Crisis Resource Centre (18 Highbury Grove, N5 2EA) a mixed gender crisis house run by One Housing Group in Islington.
The Drayton Park Women’s Centre offers 12 women in mental health crisis a residential stay, within a domestic setting as an alternative to acute admission. The service also offers non-residential services for women who have stayed previously on-going support groups, peer support space and a range of workshops for women throughout the year. Children can be admitted with their mothers but this is discussed on an individual basis at the point of referral.
Working for our organisation
C&I has worked closely with current service users and Trust staff to create a set of shared values that make sure people who use the Trust’s services get the best possible chance of a rapid recovery. These values are embedded in the campaign: Changing Lives – will help drive up the standards of care across the Trust. For people who use the C&I‘s services, these values meant that they can be assured that through their journey to recovery they will be guaranteed:
• To receive a warm welcome through their journey to recovery
• That their dignity will always be respected
• That their care will be founded on compassion and kindness
• To receive a positive approach to care as they journey towards recovery
• High Quality Care from a highly trained team of professionals
• That each individual will be part of the wider team in the journey to recovery – i.e. ‘no decision about you, without you’.
C&I staff are required to reflect these values throughout their service at the Trust both:
• for people who use the services of the Trust, AND
• within their immediate teams and across the wider business of C&I.
As an applicant for this role, you are urged to demonstrate within your supporting statement a combination of evidence that reflects your competence to meet the job specification and provide examples of how C&I values are an integral part of the way you have and will continue to deliver service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Daily Medical input, consultation and clinical leadership to the team and overall clinical responsibility for patients referred to the team.
- Medical input and leadership in care planning and risk assessment for patients under the team.
- Regular clinical supervision as required of the two full-time Specialty Grade Psychiatrists and to Specialist and Core Psychiatry trainees contributing sessions to the team.
- Carrying out Mental Health Act assessments when required.
- Regular clinical liaison with the relevant community, inpatient, liaison and perinatal teams and their Consultants.
- Close clinical liaison with the inpatient service, helping facilitate early discharge of patients back into the community where appropriate.
- Weekly attendance at the bed management meeting.
- Clinical leadership in facilitating physical health care checks for all patients under the team.
- Regular direct assessments of patients referred to the team with a focus on complex cases and high risk.
- Regular lead reviews of patients admitted to the Drayton Park Women’s Crisis house and Highbury Grove Crisis Resource Centre. (This mainly involves telephone oversight and advice of their patients as they operate as an autonomous service but may involve direct assessments when required.)
- Minimum twice-weekly multi-disciplinary chart reviews of all patients under the team.
- Medical report writing as and when required.
- Close liaison as required with GPs referring to the team.
- Assist with Serious Incident investigations and complaints when required.
- Provide second opinions for Consultant colleagues if requested.
- Support Clinical Governance projects, particularly audits projects in the Division plan.
- Provide annual and study leave cover for colleagues
- Ensure that a structured programme of learning is in place for medical students when attached to the team.
- Attend and participate in Consultants' and Management meetings to keep informed of service issues and developments, including the Clinical Advisory Group, Medical Advisory Group.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) and a license to practice. Must be on the specialist register or within 6 months of gaining a Certificate of Completion of Training
- Membership of Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent higher qualification in psychiatry
- Specialist accreditation in General adult Psychiatry (Including CESR equivalent)
- Section 12(2) and Approved Clinician status (or eligibility) - qualifies to act as a Responsible Clinician
- Registered with Royal College of Psychiatrists CPD programme and in good standing
- Shared Services training up to date to be an approved trainer/clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant post-graduate qualification
- Liaison psychiatry accreditation
- Trained as an Educational Supervisor for doctors in training
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable to change.
- Ability to effectively communicate ideas and influence others.
- Good knowledge of and ability to use both spoken and written English
- Ability to organise workload and manage time and delegate responsibility where appropriate
- Ability to practise as an independent Consultant Psychiatrist.
- Sensitivity to needs of all patients and carers.
- Sensitivity and awareness in clients and staff from different cultures, ethnicities, gender and sexual orientations.
- Teaching and supervision skills for undergraduate medical students, doctors in training and multi-professional staff
- Ability to work in a team environment and to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multidisciplinary basis with all levels of staff
- Enthusiasm for teaching psychopathology and willingness to share knowledge and experience
Desirable criteria
- A special interest or willingness to develop one in an area which helps to meet the needs of the Trust
- Experience in successfully delivering research projects
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and observance of the requirements and duties of a doctor laid down by the GMC in Good Medical Practice.
- Clinical knowledge of the full range mental disorders.
- Experience in the assessment of complex clinical cases involving severe and enduring mental illness, specifically those with personality disorders and complex emotional needs and significant risk histories and the ability to assertively engage and manage such cases
- Expertise in a comprehensive range of evidence based interventions including structured clinical management, psychological therapies and pharmacological treatments
- Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and safeguarding practices
- Experience in work place based assessments of doctors in training
- Knowledge of clinical commissioning and external organisations that interface with an NHS Trust
- Experience in organising and chairing meetings
- Good understanding of Trust governance structures, especially clinical governance
- Willingness to participate in research as appropriate and within the context of the duties of the post
Desirable criteria
- Experience in teaching small and large groups
- Experience in developing policies and protocols.
- Experience of service development.
- Experience in organising and chairing meetings
- Significant previous clinical experience at junior, higher trainee and/or consultant level in acute/crisis pathway or hospital -based psychiatry
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Chris Curtis
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Kindly have a look at the attached JD&PS to know more about the job description and person specification.
For further information please contact Dr Chris Curtis on [email protected]
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