11 Oct
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Marston Green
Job description
Job summary
Perinatal mental health services are undergoing a time of huge expansion nationally. Locally this has led to the development of a comprehensive perinatal mental health service for South Birmingham during Wave 1 of national funding.
Wave 2 of this nationally funding has led to the creation of comprehensive services covering the Black Country and West Birmingham and the North & East Birmingham and Solihull.
An important aspect of this post will be supporting the continued development of this new community team. Dr Berrisford is responsible for five inpatient unit beds and is the clinical lead for the perinatal service as a whole,
the other 5 inpatient beds and West Birmingham CMHT are covered by Dr Brownsett - Dr Brownsett will cease working for West Birmingham as she takes over the care for all beds for the MBU during Dr Berrisford's sabbatical period, Dr Jankovic provides perinatal mental health care at Birmingham Women's Hospital and also has an academic appointment.
Dr Ahmed and Dr Sultana provides perinatal care at Heart of England Foundation Trust.
We are seeking to recruit a substantive consultant psychiatrist who will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the Solihull area for 8PAs per week.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide perinatal psychiatric care to the Solihull area.
The postholder and the other consultants for Birmingham will provide reciprocal cover for the community team during the working week, as well as for the inpatient MBU.
A considerable amount of multi-agency work is envisaged with the post-holder working with relevant key agencies including Child Protection teams, Health Visiting Services and Public Health colleagues from the Local Authorities,
close working with professionals at UHB, primary care - including IAPT workers, GPs and Children's Centres, and collaboration with the voluntary sector.
Training and advice for linked agencies will be an important role of the postholder.
Collaboration with other agencies including maternity services, health visitors and GPs with which women will come into contact during their pregnancy and post-natal period is an integral part of the role, with timely and appropriate information sharing between agencies .
About us
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) provides a comprehensive mental healthcare service for residents of Birmingham and Solihull and to communities in the West Midlands and beyond.
Our Trust values are at the centre of all our work : compassionate, inclusive and committed.
Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK and as a result brings with it a whole range of cultural, social, sporting and leisure opportunities.
It is one of the youngest cities in Europe which adds to the vibrancy of the area.
We operate out of more than 50 sites and serve a culturally and socially diverse population of million spread over 172 square miles.
We have an annual budget of £240 million and a dedicated workforce of over 4,000 staff - making us one of the largest and most complex Mental Health Foundation Trusts in the country.
Our catchment population is ethnically diverse and characterised in places by high levels of deprivation, low earnings and unemployment.
These factors create a higher requirement for access to health services and a greater need for innovative ways of engaging people from the most affected areas.
This gives us the perfect opportunity to try new ways of engaging, educating and interacting with our population. This additional creativity is essential to enable us to fulfil our ambition to ensure that all members of our population with mental illness access the care and the help that they need at the time that they need it.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details of the roles and responsibilties of this post.
If you have any questions or would like to arange to visit the service, please contact :
Dr Jelena Jankovic,
Lead perinatal consultant,
Dr Sophie Tomlin, Clinical Director,
Person Specification
scoring
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- Approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act (1983)
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Obtained inclusion on the Specialist Register; or within six months of the award of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in General Adult Psychiatry;
or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register
- Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development
- Experience within the field of perinatal psychiatry at senior trainee level
- Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting,
Out Patient, In Patient and general hospital liaison settings.
- Experience of providing psychological and / or social interventions
- Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate / postgraduate level
- Commitment to clinical audit within multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to critically appraise published research
- Understanding of policies and National guide-lines relating to Perinatal psychiatry, maternal and Child health, including CEMACH, NICE, SIGN and relevant NHS and RCPsych publications
- Ability to understand and contribute to the current evidence-base
- Experience of carrying out audit projects
- Evidence of potential for effective leadership
- Ability to work creatively within multidisciplinary team
- Evidence of ability to work in a culturally sensitive manner
- Evidence of management and administrative ability
- Highly motivated to provide high quality patient centred services
- Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
- Willingness to be involved in management of service
- Experience in Medical Education
- Able to participate in Consultant on-call rota
- Able to travel
Desirable
- Additional qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or another relevant field
- Broad clinical training including both inpatient and community service
- Specific training in relation to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population
- Experience of stakeholder engagement in service delivery
- Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
- Experience of work with patient-support groups relevant to perinatal psychiatry
- Experience of supervised training in aspects of psychotherapy either through completion of post-graduate courses and / or a series of supervised cases
- Above level 3 Child Safeguarding training.
- Completed clinically relevant audit projects
- Research experience to a high level within perinatal psychiatry
- Published research within perinatal psychiatry
- Presentation at regional or national perinatal mental health meetings
- Computer skills in word processing, presentation and databases
- Qualification in Medical Education
- Full UK Driving licence
▶️ Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist, Perinatal Psychiatry, Solihull
🖊️ Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Marston Green