13 Oct
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Selby
Job description
Job summary
This post will provide input into the Selby part ofthe North Yorkshire and York service. Specifically, this service iscommissioned by the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership .
It has a Single Point of Access service staffed byan experienced staff team who triage and provide a telephone consultationservice to families and referrers.
The SPA responds to all referrals and helpyoung people and their families with the process of navigating through theoptions to find a service that meets their needs.
The service works with amodel of brief intervention to empower young people and their families inachieving good mental health and well-being.
Staff job plans are designed todeliver services described in the TEWV Clinical Pathways, in order to providehigh quality evidence-based care.
This post arises from a consultant vacancy which iscurrently covered by a locum consultant, the previous substantive post holdertransferred to another post within the service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will, with their consultantcolleague, see all presentations, requiring the input of a psychiatrist arisingfrom the secondary schools and their feeder primary schools within the Selbysector.
The consultant would expect to hold a caseload of around 70 based oncurrent consultant caseload and would be asked to see approximately 2 newassessments per week.
The service supports a model whereby all cases are coworked with other members of the MDT, care coordinator and lead professionalrole usually held by a non-psychiatrist, except where there is a formal mutualagreement that sole consultant input is required with other members of themultidisciplinary team.
The Consultant joining the team will beexpected to work in accordance with GMC guidance for working in multiagency andmultidisciplinary teams.
The Consultant will be expected to work flexibly.
The post will follow a PA (DirectClinical Care) : PA (SupportingProfessional Activities) job plan.
About us
We are Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. We provide mental health and learningdisability services to people of all ages.
We deliver a range of community and in-patient care across adult mentalhealth, children and young peoples services, mental health services for olderpeople and forensic services.
We haveover 7,000 staff working across more than 90 sites.
With an annual operating income of over £420 million, we work inpartnership with local authorities,
clinical commissioning groups, voluntaryorganisations, the private sector, as well as people who use our services,their families and carers.
Geographicallywere one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, spanning CountyDurham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby.
There are twogroup localities; Durham & Tees Valley (which includes forensic services)and North Yorkshire & York. In termsof clinical specialties, these comprise :
Adultmental health
Mentalhealth services for older people
Childrenand young peoples services
Learningdisability services
ForensicServices (including prisons)
Job description
Job responsibilities
A full job description and person specification for this post can be found attached to this advert .
The job description is currently awaiting approval from the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification
- Additional clinical qualifications.
Experience
Essential
- 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
Desirable
Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Eligibility
Essential
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of gaining CCT
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register in the relevant specialty.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
Essential
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit.
Desirable
- 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 clinical audits leading to service change.
Personal and Professional Qualities
Essential
- Shows empathy and sensitivity.
- Manages own time, workload and prioritises work.
- Able to use electronic records and use IT for email, internet and office software
- Copes under pressure.
- Works co-operatively in a multi-disciplinary team and able to delegate appropriately.
- Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.
Desirable
Highly skilled in use of electronic records and IT at work
Leadership
Essential
- Reflects on own performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback.
- Able to influence and persuade to improve services
- Able to take on leadership role in multidisciplinary team.
- Knowledge of structure and management of the NHS and the Trust.
- Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology OR able to achieve within one year of appointment
- Able to adapt to and lead service change.
Desirable
- Able to take on a leadership role outside the multidisciplinary team.
- Understanding of NHS & wider health economy and its implications for the work of the Trust.
- Trained to standard equivalent to level 2 in TEWV Trust Quality improvement system
▶️ Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
🖊️ Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Selby