Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist – Barnet North Team inWellhouse Lane London inWellhouse Lane London PUBLISHED MON 9 DEC 2024

The post offered is that of Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry (10PA), working in the Barnet North Core Community Team. The team is aligned to the Primary Care GP Locality in the North of the Borough. The post holder will share consultant lead responsibilities with one full-time substantive consultant in the service, ensuring high quality, patient-centered, effective and safe care is delivered by the team. This post will have responsibility for adults with complex mental health presentations. The North Team is one of three adult core community teams (previously known as locality teams) within Barnet (North, South and West). The team is multi-disciplinary and consists of professionals from a number of backgrounds including nursing, social work, psychiatry, psychology, occupational therapy, graduate mental health workers and community engagement workers and are supported by a dedicated admin team. The care delivered is recovery-focused which involves a change in focus from managing problems and symptoms to focusing on an individual's strengths and goals for the future. The service aims to assist individuals to be in control of your own life and seek out opportunities beyond their condition.The service is for adults experiencing a range of mental health difficulties and who may also have complex needs that would be best met by secondary mental health services.

A more detailed job description is attached. There is support for newly appointed consultants in the StartWell group. As part of this the post holder will have the opportunity of having a more senior consultant as a mentor. The post holder will have consultant and RC responsibility for a defined caseload of service users under the care of the Barnet West Core Community Mental Health Team.The post holder will provide assessment of new patients and clinical supervision of assessments carried out by other team members; making formulations using a biopsychosocial model. Ensuring evidence-based practice that is patient centered in recovery principles. Thepost holder will provide clinical and professional leadership in the Team and will take part in management activities related to the post and the wider service within which it is embedded.Service development and quality improvement in line with the Trust's vision, values and objectives are core responsibilities. The post holder is expected to maintain compliance with all legal obligations as prescribed by the Mental Health Act (MHA) and the Ministry of Justice. The post holder is expected to assess patients under the MHA and make recommendations under the MHA and to act as Responsible Clinician (RC) for patients detained under a S17A Mental Health Act 1983 (Community Treatment Order).

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The Trust is committed to the implementation of the annual consultant appraisal, outlined in the NHS Executive Advance Letters (MD) 6/00 and (MD) 5/01. The Trust uses the L2P software for the appraisal process. Appraisal and revalidation lead is Dr Koye Odutoye. The Responsible Officer for revalidation is Dr Vincent Kirchner.

Consultants joining the Trust will be offered a formal job planning meeting within three months of joining the work force. Job planning meetings are held by the presence of the clinical director (and service director if appropriate) with a job plan being reached collaboratively between the post holder, their line manager and the service director. The Trust is committed to annual reviews of job plans with a view to ensure that job plans are realistic and offer a productive balance between clinical care, service development needs and personal developmental goals of the post-holder.

Consultants joining the Trust will participate in a two-day trust-wide induction. Furthermore, they will be offered and individually arranged local induction program, during which they will meet local managers and colleagues, with whom they will share an interface.