Job overview

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation trust are excited to share a full time permanent vacancy for our Recovery team based in Gloucester. This service provides secondary care General Adult Psychiatric input to Gloucester environs alongside the parallel "Glevum" recovery team, the role works with a selection of independent functional teams including Crisis Teams, Assertive Outreach, Early Intervention, Perinatal Service and the Eating Disorders teams.

The post holder will work alongside a part time (0.6 WTE) consultant colleague as well as supported by a specialty doctor and wider recovery multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The area covered by this post and team includes around 88000 people in primary care within the Gloucester City Integrated Locality Partnership.

The role is line managed by the Medical Lead for Recovery.  

Key clinical duties include:

• Provide medical leadership to the MDT and oversight to the work of the Specialty Doctor
• To take part in triage, assessment, care planning and the delivery of care to patients eligible to be seen by the Recovery Team
• To offer advice to GPs within the patch and to liaise with other trust teams as appropriate for patient care including Crisis and Home Treatment Team, Inpatient Wards, Criminal Justice Liaison Team, Hospital Liaison Team and Mental Health Intermediate Care Team.
• To engage with Safeguarding and Child Protection processes
• To engage with Audit, Quality Improvement Processes

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.