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PSYCHIATRY
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
395-MED529-24
Employer
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queen’s Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, Essex, RM7 0AG,
Town
Essex
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/11/2024 23:59

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CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRY LIAISON OLD AGE -QUEENS HOSPITAL – ROMFORD

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

LIAISON OLD AGE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRY WITH A SPECIAL INTEREST IN PALLIATIVE CARE

(QUEENS HOSPITAL – ROMFORD)

 

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.

 

Job Details:

 

Salary

£105,504 - £139,882 per annum (Pro-rata)

Contract

Substantive

Hours

Full-time: 10 Programmed Activities (DCC:SPA = 7.5:2.5)

On call

Frequency 1:50; Category A - 3% on call supplement

Location

Queen’s Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, Essex, RM7 0AG, & Saint Francis Hospice, Broxhill Road, Havering-Atte-Bower, Romford, Essex, RM4 1QH.

 

 

Main duties of the job

Qualifications needed:

·       Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

·       CCT or equivalent

·       Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it

·       Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it

·       Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST

 

We are currently recruiting to an Older Adult Consultant Psychiatrist position for the Queen’s Hospital Liaison Team, based at Queen’s Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG, with additional palliative care input to Saint Francis Hospice, based at Broxhill Road, Havering-Atte-Bower, Romford, Essex, RM4 1QH. This is a new post, created following one consultant dropping their sessions and combining that with other resource made available by Siant Francis Hospice.

 

This is a new, substantive, full-time post – 10 PAs with 7.5 PA DCC and 2.5 SPA. This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.

 

You will work alongside another Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Stephen O’Connor), a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Gavin McKay), and a General Adult / Diabetes Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Sally Daly), two Specialty Doctors who work across old age and general adult psychiatry, a senior trainee in old age psychiatry and a Foundation Year 2 doctor. You will supervise the FY2 doctor and share supervision responsibility for the Specialty doctors.

Working for our organisation

Why NELFT?

NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over 4.9 million people, ensuring our patients, family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met. We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.

 

With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD)?

ARD is proud of being front runners in its delivery of safe services in the least restrictive way, with well-developed Home Treatment Teams and Crises Services and a small, high quality bed base.

 

ARD is the ideal place to develop your management of acute mental illness, and to develop your leadership skills.

 

The directorate has a culture of continual learning, innovation, and development, and is currently implementing a mental health transformation plan across our services. This is after instituting and new way of looking after patients in crisis.

 

You will be expected to:

·       Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to older adult people with mental health needs, across Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham.

·       Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team

·       Work directly with older adults and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external mental health providers and acute hospitals

·       Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative

·       Work alongside another Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist, a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, and a General Adult / Diabetes Consultant Psychiatrist), two Specialty Doctors who work across old age and general adult psychiatry, a senior trainee in old age psychiatry and a Foundation Year 2 doctor.

·       Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.

 

To be successful in your application, you will need:

·       To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,

·       To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Older Adult mental health care,

·       Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,

·       To be a team player

 

NELFT Benefits:

·       Relocation expenses

·       Career Development and training

·       Just & Compassionate Culture

·       Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives

·       Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme

·       Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support

·       Employee Assistance Programme

·       Health & Wellness initiatives

·       11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few

·       Retail Discounts

·       Flexible working and agile working

·       Cycle to work scheme

 

To apply for this role, please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk or www.jobs.nhs.uk and search under job reference number 395-MED529-24.

 

For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in ARD, by accessing this video link: Working for NELFT in our ARD Medical Directorate

 

We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services. Please visit www.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/why-join-us or www.nelft.nhs.uk

 

Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.

Twitter: @NELFT / NELFTCareers

LinkedIn: NELFT NHS Foundation Trust | LinkedIn

Facebook: NELFT | London | Facebook

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • CCT or equivalent. Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
  • GMC
Desirable criteria
  • Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
  • Masters or Doctorate degree. A management qualification. ECDL or equivalent qualification. Experience in strategic development

Clinical Experience

Essential criteria
  • Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
  • Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators.
  • An interest in and understanding of palliative care and mental health challenge in that context.

Clinical Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent clinical skills.
  • Excellent communication skills both verbally and written. Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches. Ability to provide medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team and to function as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
  • Clear thoughts on how to involve service users in service development and to provide a service which is experienced as being “service-user friendly”.
  • Practical experience in a short-term psychological therapy

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidencebased management interventions.
  • Up to date knowledge of recent DH documentation and NICE Guidelines.
Desirable criteria
  • An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF, and clinical governance priorities
  • An understanding of Leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Employers for CarersApprenticeships logoAge positiveDisability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldEmployers Network for Equality & InclusionTop Employers for Working Families 2021Top 10 Employer 2023

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Shazia Hashmi
Job title
Associate Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For further details / informal visits contact:

 

Associate Medical Director: Dr Shazia Hashmi           [email protected]

 

Medical Director: Dr Sarah Dracass                         [email protected]

 

Medical Director: Dr Vincent Perry                          [email protected]

 

Chief Medical Officer: Dr Caroline Allum                 [email protected]

Medical Staffing:                                                      [email protected]

 

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