SASPsychiatry

Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

CQC: Good

Kingston

Salary

£63,696 – £102,689

Posted

2 weeks ago

About the role

Specialty Doctor -Liaison Psychiatry Contract: Fixed Term Contract Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week), part time considered Site:Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, KT2 7QB The Trust is seeking a Specialty Doctor in Liaison Psychiatry at Kingston Hospital. In this post the Specialty Doctor will participate in the work of the liaison psychiatry team in a large, general teaching hospital. He/she will undertake supervised psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients referred by non-psychiatric teams from Kingston Hospital. Patients are referred from all wards and clinical areas within the hospital, including new presentations of functional and organic illness, as well as patients with established mental disorders who have been admitted for medical or surgical treatment.

The post-holder will work managing mental disorders in this setting, including prescribing for patients with altered metabolism, and delivering brief psychological interventions. The post-holder will conduct and supervise psychiatric assessment and management of deliberate self-harm and psychiatric emergencies presenting in the Accident and Emergency department, as well as hospital wards.

Specialty Doctor - Liaison Psychiatry

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

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South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD. We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' however we aim to be 'outstanding'.

Person specification

Essential

Primary Medical degree
Full GMC registration.
At least 4 years postgraduate medical experience, of which at least 2 years working in psychiatry
Eligible for S12 approval and able to obtain this within 6 months of appointment
Experience of general adult psychiatry.
Assessment of simple or complex mental illness
Assessment of comorbid physical ill-health
Teamwork -Communication -Ongoing commitment to CPD
Ability to remain calm under pressure Ability to inspire others Ability to provide good clinical leadership Ability to effect change Ability to negotiate and collaborate with first, second and third sector organisations to identify shared agendas and meet common goals
Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from allied disciplines Willingness to take on a fair share of Trustwide duties
Commitment to personal, team and service development
Ability to work co-operatively in multi- disciplinary teams Ability to manage and adapt to change

Desirable

MRCPsych or equivalent
Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act
Experience of liaison psychiatry
Experience of inpatient psychiatry
Experience of crisis & home treatment
Teaching experience
Experience of managing physical and mental disorder at a middle-grade level
Evidence of active engagement in audit/ quality improvement

Evidence of recent appraisal

Personal experience of mental illness Personal experience of social distress

Evidence of helping others who have suffered physical, mental or social misfortune Evidence of seeking feedback as a way of improving one's skills