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Main area
ORaM
Grade
YC72
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
392-MS024-CALPsychiatry
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£93,666 - £126,281 +£2,162 LW
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust logo

Consultant in Adult Liaison Psychiatry

YC72

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

We are looking for a Consultant Psychiatry leader to join the Liaison Psychiatry Service at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and help us grow our service in Complex Orthopaedics. You will be joining colleagues in a dynamic and forward-looking team, at the cutting edge of new developments in liaison psychiatry, with a culture in which development and progression are embedded. The post is offered full-time.

Main duties of the job

The Liaison psychiatry Service at the RNOH works as a triumvirate with Consultant Leads for our main areas of work: complex orthopaedics (including ortho-oncology), spinal cord injury rehabilitation and persistent pain. You will lead the expansion of our service in complex orthopaedics, for which you will have dedicated time in your job plan.

We have a strong tradition of academic research and opportunities to complete high-quality research abound.

There are no on-call commitments at present.

The post will suit someone with experience of teaching and training a diverse range of clinicians.

Working for our organisation

The RNOH is considered a Centre of Excellence. It is the foremost musculoskeletal centre in the country and rated in the top ten orthopaedic hospitals in the world. The Liaison Psychiatry Service at the RNOH is unique in many regards. It is the only dedicated psychiatric service for people with complex neuro-musculoskeletal needs and one of only a few services for those with persistent pain. It is the only service to provide outreach for people with spinal cord injury (across London) as a new model of care. Our Team is tight knit and works well together. This vacancy would suit a psychiatrist who is looking for an opportunity to make a change in a growing area of liaison psychiatry. Ability to think psycho-socially around patients’ needs would be a great advantage. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We have recently established the first comprehensive mental health screening programme for all adult patients referred to the Trust – you will provide advice, clinical liaison, appropriate assessment and management of patients who are identified as having significant mental health needs through this pathway.  You will respond to inpatient referrals and provide input to the Complex Admissions Team on a weekly basis. You will work in an innovative multidisciplinary manner with teams of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses and surgeons, and supervise the Physician Associate in Psychiatry.

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Membership of the RCPsych or equivalent
  • Certificate of Completion of Training in General Adult Psychiatry
  • Experience in Liaison Psychiatry
  • Full GMC Registration
  • Section 12(2) Approval, Eligible to act as RC for detained patients
  • Registered for the Continuing Professional Development Programme in the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Training & experience in brief psycho- therapeutic techniques appropriate for patients with psychological needs complicating the presentation or management of physical health conditions
  • Clinical Experience in at least two of the following patient groups
  • Deliberate self-harm & attempted suicide
  • Alcohol & substance misuse problems
  • Functional Neurological Disorders or Persistent Physical Symptoms (medically unexplained symptoms)
  • Psychological needs of cancer patients
  • Traumatic stress & Common Mental Disorders
Desirable criteria
  • Training in the full range of effective therapeutic techniques to include psycho- education, medication and psychological therapies
  • Experience of working with neuro-musculoskeletal problems
  • Experience of working with chronic pain patients
  • Experience of working with people following serious traumatic injuries.
  • • Special interest in service development

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Experience in multidisciplinary teaching
  • Experience in data gathering & management
  • Basic computer skills including ability to use email and interne
  • IT skills (to be tested during probationary period)
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification in Clinical Education
  • Experience of leading management projects
  • Experience of participating in or facilitating Schwartz Rounds

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience in developing a service component relevant to Liaison Psychiatry
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of conducting clinical research including applying for funding, ethical approval, data analysis and interpretation, leading research teams.

Disposition and Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
  • Enthusiasm & commitment to the NHS
  • Highest level of integrity
  • • Capacity to respond positively to the constantly changing NHS environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Parashar Ramanuj
Job title
Consultant Psychiatrist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 909 5780
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