Consultant Psychiatrist

Main duties of the job:

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

•  Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives.
•  Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
•  Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here

Working for our organisation:

LYPFT now offer a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants to the Trust. All new appointed will be started on £105,390 at pay point YC72 point 04.

In addition to this we offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

• Excellent relocation package (if applicable)
• Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract,
• On-site parking
• Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
• Wide -range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

*subject to conditions.

What you will get:

• Supportive and friendly colleagues
• Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
• Weekly academic teaching
• Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
• Annual Medical Leadership development day
• Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder, supported by the MDT, will provide:

• Regular clinical reviews
• Flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews
• Clinical input within the CPA framework
• To hold Approved Clinician status as defined within the Mental Health Act (1983) and undertake the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA 1983 under their care
• Complex prescribing and review
• Effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals and statutory organisations in support safe care and risk management
• An expectation to work intensively and assertively with the client group
• To contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community teams being available and accessible and to provide support and supervision when appropriate.
• To work collaboratively with other services within the Trust and other Trusts within the ICS.
• To provide professional leadership.
• To provide one hour a week protected clinical supervision to the Core Trainee.
• To work jointly with the Clinical Leadership Structure, Operations Manager and Head of Operations. and those in other agencies to ensure the service is delivered successfully

Person specification:

Full GMC Registration AC approved and member of RCPsych

Essential criteria:

• On GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT/CESR; current AC approval and current member of RCPsych WAA clinical experience.

Essential criteria:

• Experience of working in CAMHS

Training experience:

Essential criteria:

• Record of teaching and training at undergraduate and/or postgraduate level

Communication Skills:

Essential criteria:

• MDT working skills and evidence on application of good communication skills