A Vacancy at 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust.
There is an exciting opportunity within the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Enfield General Adult Services based in Enfield. The role is a post within the Enfield Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team (CRHTT). This service is part of the General Adult Mental Health Services in Enfield supporting the in-patient wards and the Locality Teams in Enfield. The team provides care to working age adult patients with regards to assessment and treatment in the community as an alternative to hospital admission, as a support after discharge and as admission prevention. 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.
The post is available as the previously substantive consultant left the service and moved to work in another trust. This post is available as a full-time or part-time post depending on candidate preference. If worked on a full-time basis, the post 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 job plan and ratio of DCC:SPA will be adjusted accordingly for a less than full-time post.
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.
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.
Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse
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.
For the post holder this will be nominal cross cover for leave agreed with one of the current consultants working within the Enfield General Adult Services, which is the current arrangement for all Enfield acute wards and community services. Additional in-hours and out-of-hours medical cover for urgent situations is always available from the Chase Farm on call duty doctor, with escalation as usual via the on-call senior doctors for in-patient. The consultants working in the Enfield General Adult Services provide annual leave cover for each other and share the responsibility of supervising several trainees including higher trainees, core trainees, specialty doctors and FY2 doctors working in the services.
This advert closes on Monday 23 Dec 2024