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Consultant in Psychiatry of Learning Disability

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Peterborough Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time €40,000

This is a 10 PA substantive post in community adult psychiatry based in Peterborough with the Peterborough Adult Locality team (PALT) and the primary care mental health service (PCMH). There is a generous recruitment premium attached to this post of £40K in addition to the standard relocation expenses.

The post is based in Peterborough City centre (Town hall) with opportunities to work remotely during the week. You will be working closely with a small team of senior clinicians who will manage the flow of patients from practices between primary and secondary care. You will work within the Locality team, which is itself sectorised, to manage the most severely unwell patients in your sector but you will also be aligned to staff from the Primary Care Mental Health Service who will support and assess patients in primary care from your key practices and step patients up into the team when needed.
To provide clinical expertise and leadership to Peterborough Adult Community Mental Health services, integrating mental health care across primary, secondary and 3rd sector care systems.
There is an excellent network of wider consultant support in Peterborough with weekly academic meetings and the opportunity to join a well-established consultant peer group for adult consultants in the North.
The team regularly hosts core Trainees, and higher trainees. The post holder would be encouraged to be both a clinical and educational supervisor for trainees.
CPFT is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our BAME & LGBTQ+ communities.
For further information on CPFT please visit our website
He or she will contribute to assessment of patients referred to the service for diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and support MDT members who carry out assessment of patients both within the team and in primary care. The post holder will help to facilitate accurate diagnosis and timely interventions so that treatment can be delivered in a timely manner and in accordance with the recovery model. The post holder is required to maintain Section 12(2) status and Approved Clinician status and have a comprehensive awareness of Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Care Act legislation. He or she will be expected to participate in Mental Health Act assessments when possible and will be the Responsible Clinician for patients on supervised community treatment orders in the locality.
The post holder is expected to be committed to a multidisciplinary approach to care and actively contribute to MDT meetings and formulation meetings and work in close collaboration with team members, care coordinators, other CPFT services, third sector and statutory agencies as required for the care of community patients. The post holder is expected to develop close working relationship with primary care, particularly General Practitioners and support primary care clinicians to manage patients with mental health difficulties within the primary care setting where appropriate.
Consultants will be expected to form close working relationships with their allocated group of GPs (including regular visits to GP surgeries) and to provide support and supervision to the Primary care Mental Health team in their area, as well as to provide care to patients needing specialist mental health care.
There are opportunities for both clinical work (including consultations and advice and guidance) and supporting professional activities to be conducted remotely through the use of video consultation software and videoconferencing software.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to the collection of clinical information to ensure further service development and to enable audit, participate in clinical governance activities and contribute to the day-to-day management and to the overall service development agenda through collaboration with managerial and clinical colleagues.
Medical education: CPFT has a strong medical education department and consultants with key formal roles in the North. Opportunities exist to develop as an educator at undergraduate and post graduate level. Peterborough is part of the Cambridge university northern hub and hosts clinical students in psychiatry throughout their 3 clinical years.
Medical management and leadership. The NHSE exemplar project provides the perfect opportunity for someone interested in furthering their skills in service development, medical management and leadership.
Substance misuse, transcultural psychiatry, affective disorders, psychosis, physical and mental health overlap) that they wish to develop would be encouraged to do so and become the clinical expert across the locality and wider.
Approved Clinician Status or eligible to attend training.
Specialty Registration in psychiatry
CCT in adult psychiatry or within 6 months of attainment of Higher Training CCT at time of interview or shall have equivalent experience and competencies recognised by GMC
Experience of teaching and supervision of doctors in training
Publications in the field of psychiatry

Knowledge of policy and legislation relating to mental health
Qualities and Attributes
Ability to demonstrate/develop and understanding of service within the wider context of NHS Mental Health Services and PCTs

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust