Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Psychiatry – Ward and Locality Team

Consultant Psychiatrist Adult Psychiatry – Ward and Locality Team

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.

About us

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 environment 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 fall 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.

Job 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 SpecificationQualifications

• Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Open Dialogue Training.
• 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.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

Transport

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

Clinical skills, knowledge and experience

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

Academic Skills and lifelong learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Ability to work in and lead a 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.
• 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

• Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet.
• Experience in data gathering and management.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum.

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