Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry - PICU and HTT - IOWinNewportinNewportPUBLISHED THU 19 DEC 2024

This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious psychiatrist to support a unique NHS trust going through transition and maintaining safe and effective services during this period. Post-holders will be expected to take on an active role providing consultant leadership and oversight that could include inpatient care, recovery service, early intervention in psychosis service, crisis resolution and home treatment as well as adult (ageless) community mental health services.

Consultants will use their skills and expertise to achieve the best care for service users, with a focus on providing supervision and oversight of the team and the assessment and management of complexity and severity. This includes:

*Ensuring evidence-based practice and service user-centred recovery principles to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all interventions provided by the MDT to promote recovery and independence.

*Focusing on the management of service users presenting with the greatest complexity and severity will necessitate the consultant working with a small case load in order to be able to respond in a flexible and timely way to the needs of the most unwell and or most urgent.

*Managing complex information, make formulations using a biopsychosocial model.

*Ensuring appropriate and effective engagement with carers and ward teams.

*Management of risk and weighing complex risk information to deliver care that is in the best interests of the recovery of the individual. Supporting the MDT in this by clear communication, containing anxiety, and maintaining hope for the patient.

*Ensuring the service works in line with care planning, risk management and safeguarding policies.

*Maintaining a focus on outcomes, both in terms of clinical outcomes and patient experience.

About us

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.