Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Psychiatry - Ward and Locality Team (Basé à London)

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do.

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Enfield Acute Adult Services based in Enfield. The role is a split post between one of the acute wards (Suffolk ward or Sussex ward) and one of the Locality Teams (North or South). These services care for working age adult patients with regards to assessment and treatment. Please refer to the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications within it. We welcome applicants who would like to work part-time as well. This post has been submitted for approval to the Royal College of Psychiatrists and this is awaited at present. A generous Recruitment and Retention Premia of £20,000 is applicable to this post (conditions apply) linked to the in-patient role of this job. A relocation package of up to £8000 is also available for this post. Interviews will take place 2-4 weeks after the applications have closed.

Main duties of the job

These posts are available as full-time posts and would offer 10 Programmed Activities per week - 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity (SPA). The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team(s), further development of the service(s), and the development of clinical pathways and priorities.

The post-holder will supervise two psychiatry trainees - ST4-6 and CT1-3 trainees once they have taken up the substantive role from the next trainee rotation. Prior to a trainee doctor being allocated, there will be locum agency or trust appointed doctors in these 2 posts to ensure safe service provision and continuity of care.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environments to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary team (MDT), working in close collaboration with the ward manager and other senior clinicians in the team.

The ward is a female only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years and above. It serves all of North Central London - so whilst patients will be primarily from Enfield, some will be from Barnet or Haringey and on occasion from Camden or Islington. The ward provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse. Some patients may have treatment resistant psychosis including severe negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase Farm Hospital.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• MB BS or equivalent qualification

Desirable criteria

• Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
• Open Dialogue Training
• Additional clinical qualification

Eligibility

Essential criteria

• Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
• Approved clinician
• Section 12 Approval

Desirable criteria

• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Transport

Essential criteria

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using biopsycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including a wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA

Desirable criteria

• Wide range of specialist and subspecialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and lifelong learning

Essential criteria

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement
• Participated in research or service evaluation
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
• Has actively participated in clinical audit/quality improvement programmes

Desirable criteria

• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Information Technology Experience & Skills

Essential criteria

• Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet

Desirable criteria

• Experience in data gathering and management

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first50applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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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

• Job description (PDF, 841.9KB)
• Job description (PDF, 841.9KB)

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