Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health Community

The post is a replacement 10 PA post. Sedgefield treatment and intervention team is based in Spennymoor. The Team provides secondary mental health service input for all mental health conditions for working age adult population. The team receives referrals mostly from GP surgeries via central Access team and other sources such as Crisis team/ Liaison Psychiatry/ wards. The team provides specialist support to patients with significant mental health difficulties such as mood disorders/ schizophrenia/ bipolar disorder/ personality disorder and adult neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD/ Autism. The Team is able to obtain expert advice from Trust-wide specialist services which include an ADHD service, the Autism Spectrum Assessment Team and the eating disorder service. Crisis Team manages access to inpatient services. The post-holder will develop effective working relationships with members of the Crisis Team and Inpatient Team by closely liaising with these services when patients are referred to the crisis team / needing alternative to hospital beds will be managed by the crisis team and the patients who need to be in hospital will be managed by the inpatient team. The post holder will join a dedicated multidisciplinary team and contribute to compassionate and evidence-based patient care and service improvement. Situated within Spennymoor, County Durham, working into Sedgefield North PCN which consists of 10 GP Practice groups in the area.