Community Adult Consultant Psychiatrist MHWT East

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the eastern part of the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham (plus a small number of patients who reside in that part of the Borough but whose GP is elsewhere). This roughly equates to residents of the Electoral Wards named East Brook, Alibon, Goresbrook, River and Village on the borough map in Section 3.1 below.

The successful candidate will provide senior medical support to the team, and direct input on clinical cases. The consultant will be expected to provide guidance and supervision to the team, work directly with adult patients (and their families), and liaise as appropriate with other external mental health providers, and acute hospitals.

Main responsibilities: 1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others’ workload in the day-to-day allocation of work. 2. To deputise when required in the team manager’s absence and delegate appropriately to other medical staff. 3. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them. 4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. 5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing, and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust’s risk register.

Clinical Skills: 1. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols. 2. The post holder will have full registration with a licence to practice from the General Medical Council (GMC). 3. Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes. 4. To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients. 5. To be able to assess and develop care plans to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. This includes chronic, acute, and palliative care within own competencies, recognising own limitations and seeking advice when necessary. This will include continuously evaluating and acting on outcomes. 6. To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies. 7. To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life. 8. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex.

We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Masters or Doctorate degree. A management qualification.; - ECDL or equivalent qualification. Experience in strategic development; -

Experience

Desirable: - An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF, and clinical governance priorities