Speciality Doctor in Adult Psychiatry

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and motivated full time Specialty Doctor to join our Older Adults Community Mental Health Team, based at South Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Centre.

The Kensington and Chelsea OA CMHT is a well-established multidisciplinary team, and are experienced in integrated multi-agency working. The CMHT acts as a single point of access to the service with referrals being triaged daily.

The post is an established one within the CMHT an has become available due to the current post holder leaving.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to provide medical input including undertaking mental health act assessments for patients under care of South CMHT under the supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist. This post is part of a fully integrated multi- disciplinary team as well as support and administrative services. 

Working for our organisation

Kensington and Chelsea (K&C) adult mental health service provides a range of mental health services for adults within the community and in hospital settings. 

These are integrated health and social care services and are based at: 
• St Charles Hospital - 8 inpatient wards; two adult PICUs (male and female), 4 adult acute wards and two Older Adult wards 
• South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, next to C&W Hospital - liaison service, health psychology, therapies team, memory service, older and younger adult psychiatric liaison services
• Community team bases for adult CMHTs and Psychotherapy services.
• A Primary Care Mental Health team (Community Living Well) 

The K&C Community Mental Health service is currently going through community transformation process in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. This is a new model to deliver care with greater community integration, focus on rehabilitating patients to transition down the care pathway and delivering acute community care. 

The community team provides assessments and continuing care support to service users with complex psychiatric needs in South Kensington and Chelsea operating a ‘zoning’ model with the aim of stabilising service users sufficiently to enable transfer back to the care of their GP /primary care liaison team although also providing ongoing intensive support to those service users with very complex needs. The team is multidisciplinary with all patients having an allocated worker

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To conduct initial assessments and follow-up reviews of patients referred with mental illness that require secondary care.
2. Establishing, initiating and evaluating treatment plans and risk assessments in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team and under the supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist.
3. The formulation of specialist opinion and writing of psychiatric reports

4. Undertaking the relevant referrals to other disciplines and services both within the multi-disciplinary team as well as to services and resources external to the service.
5. Observation of Trust, K&C MHS and local policies and procedures; including those related to medicines management and physical healthcare.
6. Interviewing relatives and informal carers of patients as required.
7. The post holder will be expected to provide support, teaching and supervision for MDT staff and teaching of medical students.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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