Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – Evans Ward — South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust | MedRoles
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Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – Evans Ward
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
London SE13 6LW
Salary
£109,725 – £145,478
Training post
Unknown
Trust type
Foundation
Posted
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About the role
Evans ward is a 15-bed inpatient unit, which provides psychiatric care for men, aged 18-65, with acute mental health problems who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.
The ward is based at the Ladywell unit on the University hospital Lewisham site. In addition to this ward, the Ladywell unit has two other general adult male wards (Clare and Powell wards) , two female general adult ward (Wharton and Virginia Woolf wards), one male PICU (Johnson Unit) and various community services including the Lewisham Home Treatment team, enabling very close working between teams. This promotes good levels of peer support from several consultant colleagues on a daily basis as well as facilitating consultant cover and makes it easy for consultants to find nominal cover during periods of leave.
Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – Evans Ward
There is a female PICU and other male PICU’s located in other parts of the trust which Lewisham patients can access.
The ward is a newly designed ward which is going to be a specialist ward for service users who are having their first admission. While many might be experiencing a first episode of psychosis, the service will be transdiagnostic and so will also receive service users with other diagnoses. As a result this is a unique ward which will be an exciting prospect for an ambitious and motivated applicant to develop and shape the service. The service will need to provide a thorough assessment of the service users needs including establishing a diagnosis and treatment plan. The cohort is likely to be younger than on a standard acute ward, and there would be scope for addressing social, educational and employment needs of the service users, and the ward has input from a band 6 OT, and a consultant psychologist to support this. The ward is smaller in size (15 beds) than the other wards at Ladywell, though has the same medical and nursing staffing levels, again to provide an enhanced offer for the service users on this ward.
For more details of the model please feel free to contact the Associate Medical director, Dr Hugh Williams who will be happy to discuss.
For further details, please refer to attached JD
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• To provide enthusiastic, flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the ward manager
• To take consultant responsibility for your ward, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
· To provide consultant input into the ward, using your expertise to provide advice, liaising closely with others and providing assessment of complex presentations and creating appropriate management plans
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness or those admitted in crisis.
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
For further details, please refer to attached JD.
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The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership, to act as Approved Clinician for the ward’s case load, and to work with the ward manager to deliver high quality care for patients under the care of the unit.
You will participate in the ward’s daily MDT hand over meetings and chair twice weekly ward rounds. You will also be expected to attend the directorate’s bed management meetings and any other forums/meetings aimed at improving length of stay and quality of care within our acute in patient services.
Many of the ward patients would have been detained under the Mental health act and a fundamental part of the role is to ensure that you complete all the statutory paperwork and responsibilities that go hand in hand with being the Responsible clinician.
Close liaison with community teams, Home treatment team, Liaison, GP’s, other secondary care services (example medical teams at UHL), Police, MOJ (for sec 37/41 patients) will be a key part of the role.
For further details please refer to attached JD.
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Benefits offered by SLAM:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
· Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
· Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
· Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
· Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
· Accommodation, eligible staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
· NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
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Person specification
Essential
MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months
Approved clinician status and under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Excellent knowledge in specialty
Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
Ability to work in and lead team Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
Participated in continuous professional development Participated in research or service evaluation. Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
Desirable
Qualification or hi¬¬¬¬gher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
Experience in other relevant specialties such as in patient, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
Has led quality improvement projects leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients