- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-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 the contribution of others
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit.
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Reflected 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.
- Reflects on own performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback.
- Able to influence and persuade to improve services
- Able to take on leadership role in multidisciplinary team.
- Knowledge of structure and management of the NHS and the Trust.
- Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology OR able to achieve within one year of appointment
- Able to adapt to and lead service change.
- Able to take on a leadership role outside the multidisciplinary team.
- Understanding of NHS & wider health economy and its implications for the work of the Trust.
- Trained to standard equivalent to level 2 in TEWV Trust Quality improvement system
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Experience
- MRCPsych
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry OR included within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Describe your clinical experience relevant to this job role
- Any other experience that may be applicable
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Description
Job summary
There is a vacancy for a full timeConsultant working into the Psychosis Team covering the area of South Durham(population 125,000 min 2008), part of the South Durham Locality. This is areplacement post. In total there are 13 Adult Mental Health Consultant postsacross the locality, which are supported by medical staff from the rotationscheme in psychiatry, GP Registrars, F2 Doctors and Speciality Doctors.
Main duties of the job
The Consultant will be expected toprovide committed, proactive and responsive clinical leadership working withother staff to provide an assessment and treatment service for thoseindividuals suffering from psychosis in the South Durham well as providing review clinics at the Goodall Centre, BarnardCastle and Enterprise House, Spennymoor, the Consultant will also undertakejoint reviews with other team members for complex, unstable and high riskindividuals. There are robust joint-working arrangements across both Affectiveand Psychosis teams based at Goodall Centre and this is aimed to supportcomplexities that may arise in patient care but also patients in whom there islack of clarity around which of the two teams they may fit into.Consultants will be fullyinvolved with the CPA process.
As the RC for patients in the team, thepost-holder will be overseeing Clozapine reviews within the team but the AdvancedNurse practitioner who is experienced in managing patients on Clozapine willtake an active role in ensuring all monitoring are in place and only concernsescalated where this is a need to the support from the juniordoctors, ANC and ANP it is only the most complex cases that are then referredfor review by the consultant psychiatrist or where there may be a legalobligation due to CTOs etc.
About us
We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire.
We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust take a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be, helping TEWV to do things better.
Psychiatrists are essentialcontributors to the majority of our mental health teams. Service users expectand are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicatedpsychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. Our medicalstaffing shortage puts strain on services and puts strain on workforcewellbeing and costs extend beyond the financial. The Medical Directorate andMedical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitmentand retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is TheTEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached SupportingDocument).
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for further information on this post. Please note the job description is currently waiting approval from the Royal College.
Person SpecificationClinical Knowledge & Skills
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Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
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Leadership
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Qualifications
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Eligibility
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Experience
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