Job summary
We are seeking an experienced psychiatrist to lead our team across our female-only Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. This role requires a dynamic and inspiring leader who can foster a professional, open culture that empowers our clinical staff to provide exceptional, compassionate care.
As the Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be a visible and influential figure within our hospital. You will work collaboratively with a multi-professional management team, ensuring that our care meets the highest regulatory standards. Your leadership will be key in shaping the strategic direction of our unit, always prioritising safe, effective, and individualised care for every patient.
Main duties of the job
In collaboration with other clinical colleagues andmanagers your role will involve helping to develop a comprehensive treatment service that seeks todeliver a high quality response to those suffering from a range of mentalhealth problems based on quality assured evidence based practice. You will be responsible for providing advicewith regard to the psychiatric care of clients within their respective servicearea and will entail taking overall responsibility for a defined caseload ofpatients
About us
Baldock Manor is a 40-bed hospital in north Hertfordshire that provides specialist psychiatric services for adults. The hospital has two female PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care) wards and two acute wards.
Our PICU services provide care and support for women at crisis level with a severe mental disorder who require rapid assessment and stabilisation.
Our acute wards care for older adults, usually 55 years or older, who need a short-term hospital stay, where we can stabilise their mental health. The average stay in our acute wards is less than forty days.
Our service objectives:
To offer a first-rate, safe and personalised service that promotes our patients choice, dignity, and quality of life and delivers a cost-effective service for our NHS partners.
Our model of care:
Our care model places our patients needs and personal circumstances at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to providing quality, meaningful care focused on recovery and aim to support each person admitted to our services in a personalised, collaborative way.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Inconjunction with Consultant colleagues they will provide professionalsupervision to the other medical staff where appropriate. They will ensure thatjunior medical staff time and duties are managed in a manner which best suitsthe needs of the service and their ongoing training.
Participatein an out of hours rota with other Consultant Psychiatric colleagues in BaldockManor Hospital.
Ensurethere is adequate consultant cover across the hospital as required
Participatein quality enhancement and service evaluation projects and will be encouragedto undertake any research which may be relevant to either short or long-termservice improvement.
Participatein educational and health promotion activities within the Mental Health Serviceand to be pro-active in liaising on a regular basis with General Practitioners.
Leadthe CPD programme for the hospital and foster a culture of learning
Provide professional advice to the Senior Managementteam and Board on key service planning issues and psychiatric clinical issuesor staffing issues, ensuring that the Senior Management Team and Board ofDirectors keep quality of care at the core of decision making
Bea role model for effective leadership in the business driving a positive,can-do culture and actively promote collaboration, enablement, innovation andpositive outcomes.
Provideinput and advice on any relevant initiatives that require a medical perspective implementation of recommendations from NICE, National Inquiries, ExternalInvestigations etc.
Representthe business externally at local, regional and national level, raising theprofile of the business and establishing working relationships withcommissioners, community teams and other key partners.
Overseethe performance of the Consultant Psychiatrists ensuring that systems are inplace to support appraisal and revalidation. Identify, investigate and escalateconcerns about psychiatrists conduct or performance.
Maintaineffective, professional leadership for alongside other Consultant Psychiatristsproviding clinical supervision and mentorship.
Work with the Responsible Officer to support theappraisal and revalidation process for other Psychiatrists.
To participate in the recruitment and appointmentof relevant staff
Work in partnership with patients alwaysconsidering patient preferences when discussing treatment options consideringthe full impact of clinical decisions on the patient and directing andsupporting patients to the information they need to support decision making.
Take part in the management of joint investigationsof clinical nature concerning doctors such as those that arise from complaintsor untoward events.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Approved Clinician
2. In good standing with the RCPsych
3. Current registration with GMC
4. At least five years experience in in-patient setting
5. Ability to take independent Clinical decisions and demonstrate clinical leadership.
6. Knowledge of evidence based practice.
7. Effective communication skills verbal and written.
8. Up to date with current practices in rehabilitation Psychiatry.
9. Able to organise oneself and prioritise clinical need.
10. Evidence of participation in audit.
11. Able to demonstrate time management skills, with the ability to work well under pressure, prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
12. Ability to analyse information and use effectively and efficiently
Desirable
13. Relevant Post-Graduate qualification
14. Experience of working in Psychiatric intensive care
15. Experience of working in Acute services
16. Teaching
17. Research
18. Proficient IT skills