Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). It is an exciting time to join us and be 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 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. 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.
Main Duties of the Job
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.
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 a 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 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
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria:
* MBBS 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 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.
Desirable Criteria:
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist 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 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.
Desirable Criteria:
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
* Reflect on the 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 for 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 e.g. 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 first 50 applications 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 cost 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, 858.6KB)
* Job description (PDF, 858.6KB)
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