17 Oct
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Leeds
Job description
We are seeking 2 Consultant Psychiatrists to join our well established MDT and Senior Leadership Team in the acute adult inpatient service at LYPFT.
The Consultants will work together within mutually agreed timetables to be the Responsible Clinician, working with the MDT to assess, review, prescribe, formulate and treat inpatients admitted to the ward.
The majority of inpatients are detained under the MHA. LYPFT has a proven track record in teaching and training medical students and junior doctors, as well as excellent opportunities for developing clinical and medical leadership.
Each Consultant Psychiatrist will work alongside a large MDT leading on management of inpatients.
The Consultant will be supported by a fulltime Specialty Doctor, Higher Trainee (once trainer approved), Core Trainee and Foundation Year Doctor.
The Consultant will play a key role in the medical and clinical leadership of the ward.
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
About us
LYPFT now offer a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants to the Trust. All newly 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
On GMC specialist register or within 6 months of CCT / CESR current AC approval and current member of RCPsych
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in working age adult psychiatry
- Record of teaching and training at undergraduate and / or postgraduate level
- Description of QIP eg clinical audit / service evaluation / development
173-42024-MED
▶️ Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Working Age Adult Female Inpatients
🖊️ Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Leeds