21 Oct
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Essex
Job description
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating.
NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years,
and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.
Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
LIAISON OLD AGE CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRY WITH A SPECIAL INTEREST IN PALLIATIVE CARE
QUEENS HOSPITAL ROMFORD)
Please note : We reserve the right to close this advert, at any time, in the event of receiving suitable applicants.
Job Details : Salary
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum (Pro-rata)
Contract
Substantive
Hours
Full-time : 10 Programmed Activities (DCC : SPA
On call
Frequency 1 : 50; Category A - 3% on call supplement
Location
Queen’s Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, Essex, RM7 0AG, & Saint Francis Hospice, Broxhill Road, Havering-Atte-Bower, Romford, Essex, RM4 1QH.
Main duties of the job
Qualifications needed :
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- CCT or equivalent
- Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it
- Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it
- Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of obtaining CCST
We are currently recruiting to an Older Adult Consultant Psychiatrist position for the Queen’s Hospital Liaison Team, based at Queen’s Hospital, Rom Valley Way, Romford, RM7 0AG, with additional palliative care input to Saint Francis Hospice, based at Broxhill Road, Havering-Atte-Bower, Romford, Essex, RM4 1QH.
This is a new post, created following one consultant dropping their sessions and combining that with other resource made available by Siant Francis Hospice.
This is a new, substantive, full-time post 10 PAs with PA DCC and SPA.
This post is currently vacant, and we wish to recruit to this post as soon as possible.
You will work alongside another Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Stephen O’Connor), a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Gavin McKay), and a General Adult / Diabetes Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Sally Daly), two Specialty Doctors who work across old age and general adult psychiatry, a senior trainee in old age psychiatry and a Foundation Year 2 doctor.
You will supervise the FY2 doctor and share supervision responsibility for the Specialty doctors.
Working for our organisation
Why NELFT?
NELFT is an award-winning community and mental health Trust, providing healthcare for over million people, ensuring our patients,
family and friends feel confident that their health needs are met.
We are committed to delivering the best care to the communities we serve across North East London, Essex and Kent.
With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled healthcare professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Joining us will provide you with unparalleled access to training opportunities, continuous CPD, peer support groups, and a robust supervision and appraisal system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate (ARD)?
ARD is proud of being front runners in its delivery of safe services in the least restrictive way,
with well-developed Home Treatment Teams and Crises Services and a small, high quality bed base.
ARD is the ideal place to develop your management of acute mental illness, and to develop your leadership skills.
The directorate has a culture of continual learning, innovation, and development, and is currently implementing a mental health transformation plan across our services.
This is after instituting and new way of looking after patients in crisis.
You will be expected to :
- Work as part of multidisciplinary teams providing care to older adult people with mental health needs, across Redbridge, Havering, Barking and Dagenham.
- Provide senior medical support and guidance to the team
- Work directly with older adults and their families and liaise as appropriate with other external mental health providers and acute hospitals
- Support your peers and team leader, and be an effective team member whilst allowing them to work with their own initiative
- Work alongside another Old Age Consultant Psychiatrist, a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist, and a General Adult / Diabetes Consultant Psychiatrist), two Specialty Doctors who work across old age and general adult psychiatry, a senior trainee in old age psychiatry and a Foundation Year 2 doctor.
- Commit to collaborative working, actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals, and agencies.
To be successful in your application, you will need :
- To demonstrate that your values are in line with that of NELFT’s values,
- To be innovative, motivated, and passionate about Older Adult mental health care,
- Essential understanding of current developments in mental health care,
- To be a team player
NELFT Benefits :
- Relocation expenses
- Career Development and training
- Just & Compassionate Culture
- Award winning Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion initiatives
- Vivup employee benefits platform and salary sacrifice scheme
- Salary Finance and Financial Wellbeing support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Health & Wellness initiatives
- 11 Staff Networks including parents & carers network, ethnic minorities network, LGBT+ network and Disability network to name a few
- Retail Discounts
- Flexible working and agile working
- Cycle to work scheme
To apply for this role,
please visit or and search under job reference number 395-MED529-24 .
For more information, hear directly from our clinicians in ARD, by accessing this video link : Working for NELFT in our ARD Medical Directorate
We encourage you to view our Trust website and read the news stories, which will give you more information about the breadth of the organisation and our innovative services. Please visit or
Please also view our social media pages to get an insight into life at #TeamNELFT.
Twitter : @NELFT / NELFTCareers
LinkedIn : NELFT NHS Foundation Trust LinkedIn
Facebook : NELFT London Facebook
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
CCT or equivalent. Section 12 Approval or eligibility for it.
Desirable criteria
- Approved Clinician status, or eligibility for it. Inclusion in, or eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry or within 6 months of obtaining CCT
- Masters or Doctorate degree. A management qualification. ECDL or equivalent qualification. Experience in strategic development
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Mastery in the management of a broad range of mental disorders in older adults
- Experience in managing patients from different cultural backgrounds. Working with interpreters and translators.
- An interest in and understanding of palliative care and mental health challenge in that context.
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent clinical skills.
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and written. Familiarity with a wide range of theoretical and clinical approaches.
Ability to provide medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team and to function as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Clear thoughts on how to involve service users in service development and to provide a service which is experienced as being service-user friendly .
- Practical experience in a short-term psychological therapy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of the biological, psychological, and social determinants of mental health disorders and evidencebased management interventions.
- Up to date knowledge of recent DH documentation and NICE Guidelines.
Desirable criteria
- An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF, and clinical governance priorities
- An understanding of Leadership and evidence of how this has been put into practice.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT :
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term / chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers.
This has resulted in us being recognised as a Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
▶️ CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRY LIAISON OLD AGE -QUEENS HOSPITAL – ROMFORD
🖊️ NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
📍 Essex