The post offered is that of Emergency Psychiatrist for the Highgate Campus, Highgate Mental Health Centre West, Dartmouth Park Hill, London N19 5NX this is a 12 month fixed term locum (pending Royal College Approval for substantive recruitment) position in acute / emergency psychiatry for general adults and the older adult population.
This is a new and exciting post working flexibly and primarily across two exciting and award-winning new services on the Highgate campus. The services are; the newly established Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service (MHCAS) and the Health Based Place of Safety Service (HBPOS). The post holder will also work flexibly across liaison services and inpatient services within the Highgate Campus as needed
The Postholders will work closely with the other Emergency Consultants and the Hospital Division Clinical Director, Associate Clinical Director, service director, service manager and team managers to provide strategic clinical leadership to the multi-professional group and contribute to strategic direction of the unit and development of this care pathway.
The post holder will work flexibly across the Highgate campus and liaison services as directed by Clinical Director and Associate Clinical Director. This may include some work on the wards as needed or within the liaison teams as needed but will primarily work within the MHCAS and HBPOS services.
The Post-holder will provide day to day clinical leadership to an experienced Multi-disciplinary team. Both services are nurse led. This will include undertaking routine daily section 136/135 assessments in the HBPOS unit and senior medical reviews and MHAA’s at MHCAS; liaising with emergency department liaison teams/medical staff (when patients move between the two services); providing brief clinical reports and handover information to inpatient ward staff prior to transfer of patients subsequently detained under the mental health act and providing clinical guidance to other team members as and when required. The post-Holder will participate in a daily team supervision/clinical handover de-briefing session for overnight on-call Core and Higher trainees (when handing over clinical responsibility to the team’s medical team).
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:
We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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.
Please see attached JD for detailed duties on the Emergency Psychiatrist - Highgate Campus Role at Highgate Campus - Highgate Mental Health Centre West (12 month fixed-term contract)
This advert closes on Friday 13 Dec 2024