Forensic Learning Disability Consultant
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a highly skilled Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Specialist Community Forensic Team. As a Consultant Psychiatrist and Approved Clinician, you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care by providing a comprehensive psychiatric service to people with a Learning Disability and Forensic needs in Cheshire and Merseyside.
The role includes Approved Clinician provision where a person is subject to Conditional Discharge or a Community Treatment Order under the Mental Health Act or where there is an identified need. You will be required to have prescriber function as well for the team besides offering specialist assessment (including risk assessments) and management of patients on your caseload.
Main Duties of the JobFulfilling the Community Responsible Clinician responsibility for patients accepted into the service will be a major component of this post.
You will have a flexible job plan to provide outpatient or community clinics and home visits. You will participate in regular MDT meetings, CPA reviews, MAPPA, safeguarding, risk reviews and providing clinical leadership and Responsible Clinician role.
The role will include outpatient or community clinics, emergency home visits, liaising with forensic support services, attending professional meetings and any other activities involved in delivery of clinical care to the forensic learning disability and or autistic spectrum disorder patients.
Working for Our OrganisationOur organisation is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Our organisation is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient.
Detailed Job Description and Main ResponsibilitiesThe Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT) is a newly commissioned service based at Hollins Park House in Warrington. This service is for patients with a learning disability and or autism with a forensic need, and serves the community in Merseyside and Cheshire.
The SCFT provides preventative, reactive and evidence-based interventions through a combination of specialist risk assessments and management, face-to-face therapeutic interventions and support, as well as support, training and consultancy to other services to meet the needs of this group.
- Work collaboratively with in-patient services to reduce length of stay
- Support step down and recovery in the community
- Apply a proactive risk management approach to enable service users to fulfil their individual potential and achieve their goals
- Apply specialist forensic skills and knowledge to prevent admission and re-admission, including the role of Clinical Supervisor when supporting people who are Conditionally Discharged
- Delivery of offence specific therapeutic interventions
- Ensure robust multi-agency involvement to ensure public/community safety
It is anticipated that the team will support around 90 people who have a learning disability and or autism who have offended or are at risk of offending.
The SCFT offers a full MDT component including highly skilled specialist nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Support Worker, Social Work and Psychologists. This role will be supported by a designated medical secretary. There are no junior doctors attached to the team and therefore this is the single medical role for the service.
This post will require close working with Cheshire and Merseyside Learning Disability services and our organisation's Forensic LD services.
Eligible for inclusion in Specialist Register or within 6 months of gaining CCT.CCT in Psychiatry-
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