Consultant Psychiatrist - Bishop Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom - Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Description

There is a vacancy for a full time Consultant working into the Psychosis Team covering the area of South Durham (population 125,000 min 2008), part of the South Durham Locality.

In total there are 13 Adult Mental Health Consultant posts across the locality, which are supported by medical staff from the rotation scheme in psychiatry, GP Registrars, F2 Doctors and Speciality Doctors.

As well as providing review clinics at the Goodall Centre, Barnard Castle and Enterprise House, Spennymoor, the Consultant will also undertake joint reviews with other team members for complex, unstable and high risk individuals.

As the RC for patients in the team, the post-holder will be overseeing Clozapine reviews within the team but the Advanced Nurse practitioner who is experienced in managing patients on Clozapine will take an active role in ensuring all monitoring are in place and only concerns escalated where this is a need to.

Due to the support from the junior doctors, ANC and ANP it is only the most complex cases that are then referred for review by the consultant psychiatrist or where there may be a legal obligation due to CTOs etc.

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 also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas.

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.

Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
Participated in continuous professional development
Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
Reflects on own performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback.
Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology OR able to achieve within one year of appointment
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.
Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry OR included within six months.