Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – Enfield
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.
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.
About us
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 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.
Job 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
* Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Open Dialogue Training.
* 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.
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
Transport
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
Clinical skills, knowledge and experience
* 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.
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
Academic Skills and lifelong learning
* 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.
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
* Reflect on 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 to patients.
Information Technology Experience & Skills
* Basic computer skills, including ability to use e-mail and Internet.
* Experience in data gathering and management.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per annum.
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