Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist Havering

This post is for a Community Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist position in the Havering Old Age Community Mental Team based at 26 Gubbins Lane, Harold Wood, RM3 0QA

The role combines clinical leadership, direct patient care and collaboration across the care pathway for Old Age mental health patients. In the course of your work, you will help shape service development, support staff and champion the Trust values of kindness, respect, and partnership with communities.

This is a full-time post for an Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist in a well-established service with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary team.

This is a full-time substantive post, and we would consider flexible working, job share or fixed term if preferred. It is a post with 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) with 7.5 Direct Clinical Contact activities (DCC) and 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPAs).

This is a well-established post that has become vacant due to the previous consultant leaving the organisation. There has also been a restructuring of the medical input to the teams (to align medical input to the local Primary Care Networks).

The post holder will be a Consultant Psychiatrist committed to establishing a culture of care and collaborative working in the team. You will be expected to provide clinical leadership and supervision to the team, work directly with adult patients and their families and liaise as appropriate with inpatient, crisis and other community consultant psychiatrists. You will also develop links across the whole mental health pathway and primary care networks in Havering to continually improve services for our communities.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing care to older adults with mental health needs who are registered with a GP Practice located in the central part of the London Borough of Havering (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 Brooklands, Romford Town, Squirrel’s Heath, Emerson Park, St Andrew’s, and Hylands as indicated on the borough map in Section 3.1 below. Supervision responsibilities for the Specialty Doctor and the Core Trainee will be divided between the Consultants in the Team.

The Medical staffing in the team consists of: • 3 whole time equivalent (wte) Consultants + 1 x 0.6 (wte) Consultant

General Duties

Organise and prioritise own and team workload in line with Trust protocols.

Ensure effective clinical and team-level risk management.

Provide clinical supervision and education to team doctors, promoting high standards of care.

Maintain personal professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning.

Undertake regular appraisal and maintain a personal development plan.

Facilitate integration of new staff and support team-wide training initiatives.

Education

Deliver in-service teaching to medical students, trainees, and multidisciplinary team members.

Administration

Complete all patient-related administrative tasks accurately and promptly.

Use the Trust’s electronic case record system effectively.

Management

Collaborate with the team manager and senior colleagues to ensure safe, high-quality care through clinical governance.

Act as line manager for resident doctors.

Contribute to service development, business planning, and clinical leadership within the service and directorate.

Demonstrate leadership to foster effective teamwork and positive relationships across the Trust.

Promote integrated care and a supportive team culture.

Participate in Trust-wide mental health strategy and advocate for co-production in service development.

Share knowledge and best practice based on current research and evidence.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, senior managers, and clinical leads.

Convey complex patient information clearly to support collaborative decision-making.

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

Essential: - Inclusion in/eligibility for the Specialist Register for Psychiatry (or within 6 months of CCT); -; - Approved Clinician status/ eligibility; -

Desirable: - Postgraduate qualification

Experience

Desirable: - An understanding of systemic leadership principles.; -; - Working knowledge of quality improvement methodology; -