The service is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist with experience in forensic psychiatry to work within the low secure female mental health service. The service currently works within a continuous care model with an eleven bedded inpatient ward and a small cohort of outpatients (up to 15). The inpatient service is a regional service providing secure care to adult women within the footprint of the West Yorkshire Secure Provider Collaborative. The community service provides outpatient follow up to Leeds service users only. Referrals are received from medium security for step down, prisons and acute services.
The final program of activities will be worked out with the post holder on a ratio of 7.5 direct clinical care to 2.5 supporting professional activities.
Main duties of the job
Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.
Here at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.
The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:
1. Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
2. Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
3. Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services
As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide.
About us
In addition to this we offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:
* Excellent relocation package (if applicable)
* Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract
* On-site parking
* Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
* Wide range of Health & Wellbeing benefits
This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.
As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you. Do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.
*subject to conditions.
What you will get:
* Supportive and friendly colleagues
* Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
* Weekly academic teaching
* Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational/training development opportunities
* Annual Medical Leadership development day
* Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
* Have RC responsibilities for up to 11 female inpatients detained on restricted and unrestricted sections of the MHA
* Act as consultant psychiatrist/responsible clinician to about 15 female outpatients (informal, on community treatment orders/conditional discharge)
* Provide access assessments on behalf of the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
* Provide risk assessment and management advice for colleagues in acute services.
* It is anticipated that the frequency of assessments would be about 1-2 per month.
* Provide excellent clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team to stabilise acute mental illness and manage risk.
* Deliver high quality efficient and effective care for service users working in a trauma informed collaborative way.
* Teach, train and supervise junior medical staff and other professionals
* Comply with the requirements of the GMC and Royal College of Psychiatrists
* Contribute to the wider functions of the trust including governance, appraisal, quality improvement
* The post holder will join the Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust general adult on-call rota and will be third on-call
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* MBBS
* Full registration with the General Medical Council with a license to practice
* CCT or CESR in Forensic or WAA psychiatry (with appropriate experience) or inclusion on the GMC specialist register anticipated within the next 6 months
* Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent
* Approved under Section 12 (2)
* Approved Clinician status (may be anticipated within the next 3 months)
Skills
Essential
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Evidence of being a team player
Experience
Essential
* Actively engaged in audit and service development
* Teaching skills
* Ability to apply research evidence
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