Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry
St John’s Hospital, Livingston
Reference: 208566
NHS Lothian is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.
To this end, NHS Lothian welcomes applications from all sections of society. We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
Minimum Requirements:
Applicants must have full GMC Registration, a license to practise and be eligible for inclusion in the GMC Specialist Register. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview. Portfolio Pathway (formerly known as CESR - Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive consultant post once it has been awarded. Non-UK applicants must demonstrate equivalent training.
Applications are welcome for the above Permanent, part-time (32 hours per week) post based in St John’s Hospital, Livingston.
You will be expected to undertake the duties of an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist, caring for patients from a GP catchment area in clinic and on an assessment ward. You will also be responsible for contributing to a memory clinic, along with a dedicated ANP.
The post is an 8 session post. This is a chance to be part of a well-established team at a time of positive development. 7 sessions will be catchment area work, covering both inpatients, outpatients and liaising with the community team, and there is 1 SPA session.
There will also be the possibility of revising the clinical work covered depending on service need and the interests and skills of the successful applicant.
The post-holder will deliver care and promote a multidisciplinary and multiagency approach to a catchment area of approximately 9700 (figures from GP lists).
The postholder will be supported by a multi-disciplinary team including junior medical staff and a part-time secretary. Our community mental health team supports triaging referrals and assessing a large proportion of patients before they are allocated to consultant clinics. After the CPN assesses the patient, they may require supervision and will bring the patient back to the team meeting to discuss the presentation and explore options for medication and treatment plan. They can request consultant clinic appointments for the patients they review.
This post holder will also be the consultant involved in the memory clinic. Patients to be seen in this clinic are assessed comprehensively by the CPNs, using a structured assessment. The assessments are checked by all of the consultants in this department (particularly checking that all bloods are done before being seen in clinic). This post holder will have 2 memory clinics plus an admin session to see patients for diagnosis and treatment planning.
The in-patient ward is supported by an FY2, a core psychiatry trainee, a higher psychiatry trainee, RMNs, OT, and physiotherapist. There is one old age psychiatry assessment ward in the hospital that cares for male and female patients, with both functional and organic mental illness.
For an informal discussion please contact:
Dr Louise Mowatt, Consultant Psychiatrist/Clinical Director
St John’s Hospital, Howden Road West, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 6PP
01506 523771 louise.mowatt@nhslothian.sot.nhs.uk
Dr Suzanne Roscrow, Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry
01506 523759 suzanne.roscrow@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
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We cannot accept CVs as a form of application and only a completed online application form will be accepted. Personal information will not be sent with the application for short listing. The application form will be identified by the candidate number only to ensure that all applicants are treated equally.
Closing Date: 12/03/2025
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
Interview Date: 12/03/2025
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