Job summary
- Main area
- Older Adult Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PA)
- Job ref
- 351-MED034CW-24-A
- Employer
- Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charnley Fold
- Town
- Bamber Bridge
- Salary
- £83,945 - £95,275 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Specialist Grade Psychiatrist - Older Adult CMHT & RITT
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade
As an integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
- Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
- Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
- Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, flexi-time and career breaks.
For more information on Medical posts at LSCFT and to see some of our videos of Consultants currently working at LSCFT, please visit our medical recruitment pages via Lancashire & South Cumbria Medical Recruitment.
Job overview
Specialist Psychiatrist – Older Adult Community Psychiatry, Preston (10PA)
We are seeking to recruit a substantive Specialist Psychiatrist (Specialist Grade) to work with the Older Adult Single Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team (RITT) and Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), based at Charnley Fold, Bamber Bridge, Preston. This post is full time (10 PA).
It is expected that the postholder will contribute to the On Call rota, for which additional remuneration will be paid.
Main duties of the job
The Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team sees patients with acute mental health needs at home or in care homes with the aim of preventing admission to hospital or care home and facilitating early discharge from the in-patient wards. It provides input to patients referred who have higher needs or risks which require more intensive input than can be provided by the CMHT. It is a multidisciplinary team including Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Doctors, Nurses and Support Workers. The post carries no responsibility for inpatients.
Both the Preston and the Chorley and South Ribble CMHTs are based at Charnley Fold. The Ormskirk CMHT is at Brookside in Ormskirk. Each provides community services by a multi-disciplinary Community Mental Health Team. The Consultants in the team provide clinical supervision in line with new ways of working. All patients are referred to a single point of access and allocated to the appropriate team.
Applicants should hold full GMC registration and have a minimum of 6 years’ experience in a relevant specialty in the Specialty Doctor and/or closed SAS grades.
It is a requirement that applicants are Section 12 Approved at the time of commencing employment.
Working for our organisation
Support for CESR
The successful applicant will be provided with monthly support from a CESR College Evaluator/ CESR Mentor to achieve their CESR competencies and their job plan reviewed to address their needs for completing CESR documentation and submit to the General Medical Council to progress to Consultant position within the organisation .
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are proud of our fantastic SAS Development Programme, which is a great source of development for our Doctors. We have an active SAS Forum which meets on a regular basis to discuss operational and professional issues to support SAS/Specialty Doctors.
Check out our twitter accounts for examples of some exciting things we are working on via @LSCFTMedics and @LSCFTMedEd
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details about this post.
The Job Description was approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 27 September 2022.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent
- Full GMC registration and licence to practise
- Section 12 approved or within 3 months
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge, skills and experience relevant to this post
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Baljeet Saluja
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist and AMD
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01695 684700
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