27 Oct
NHS
Durham
Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health (Acute Inpatient)Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
There is a vacancy for a full-time (10PA) consultant post to work in Cedar Ward, which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at West Park Hospital in Darlington. This is a replacement post and an exciting opportunity to be part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team working in a dynamic and highly specialised environment.
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Cedar Ward is one of two PICUs within the trust. The other PICU is Bedale Ward, located at Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough.
Cedar Ward takes referrals for patients based in the geographical areas of Durham, Darlington, Easington, Northallerton, and Harrogate. Bedale Ward takes referrals from patients based in Teesside (Hartlepool, Stockton, Redcar and Cleveland, and Middlesbrough), York, and Scarborough.
The main inpatient beds for the South Durham locality are located at West Park Hospital. There are two wards admitting patients with acute mental health problems at West Park Hospital (Maple and Elm Wards). These inpatient wards provide the inpatient psychiatric care to the acutely unwell clients from Darlington and South Durham areas.
West Park Hospital also has a 15-bedded Willow Ward for Rehabilitation Psychiatry.
Main duties of the job
Cedar Ward is a 10-bedded in-patient unit, located at West Park Hospital, Darlington. Cedar Ward provides psychiatric intensive inpatient care to acutely unwell and disturbed female and male clients, aged 16-65 years.
It provides intensive care for all clients requiring a high level of care from the County Durham, Northallerton, and Harrogate area. The unit includes a seclusion room, and clients generally have to be detained under the Mental Health Act prior to admission.
Cedar Ward provides a multi-disciplinary service for people whose psychiatric or psychological condition requires them to be treated in a controlled environment, with a higher ratio of staff to patients, for the shortest period of time their condition allows. The unit emphasises multidisciplinary team working, recognising that the complex clients it serves require efficient, effective, collaborative approaches to assessment, formulation, and treatment planning. The unit is committed to Force Reduction drivers, both local and national,
and to enhancing the client experience of care. This involves leadership partnerships with psychiatry, psychology, and nursing staff, and an emphasis is placed on Positive Behavioural Support, encompassing least restrictive practice, therapeutic restrictive practice, therapeutic risk, and highly skilled prescribing.
About us
We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire, and York and Selby. We provide a range of inpatient and community services to 2 million people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton, and Richmondshire.
We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.
We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers, and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural, and industrial areas.
We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust takes a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be,
helping TEWV to do things better.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for further information on this post. Please note this post has been approved by The Royal College.
Person SpecificationClinical Knowledge & Skills
- 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
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
- 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.
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Reflected on the 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.
Leadership
- 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.
- 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
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry OR included within six months.
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Experience
- Describe your clinical experience relevant to this job role
- Any other experience that may be applicable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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▶️ Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health (Acute Inpatient)
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