Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry - New CMHT
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About Us
We’re passionate about promoting good mental health and wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise and resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe and focused on people’s recovery.
Job Opportunity
We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist following the review of our medical workforce and service transformation to join the NEW CMHT team.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to drive quality improvement initiatives, enhance patient safety, engage with carers, and deliver psychoeducation to patients.
- Provide medical input and leadership to the NEW CMHT with responsibility for patients from surgeries in the Calne and Marlborough area with a population of approximately 42,000 of all ages.
- Work with adults of working age with a colleague within the CMHT working with Older Adults and a separate Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service providing input to that age group.
- Regular attendance at the team MDT meetings.
- Assessment and treatment of outpatients in clinics. To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
- Liaise with the Intensive and Inpatient services as appropriate to facilitate handover of clients between services.
- Involvement in supervision and training of medical students, resident doctors, Specialist Registrars and multidisciplinary colleagues, non-medical prescribers.
- Contribute to service development, management and business planning through local and Trust wide meetings.
- Provide medical and AC responsibility for patients from designated GP practices.
- Assessment of outpatients in clinics with advice to GPs regarding medication and other treatments.
- Routine clinical care through out-patients with an average of 1-2 new patient contacts and 4-6 follow up appointments per week.
- Telephone advice to GPs.
- Home visits or reviews in GP practices if clinically indicated.
- To liaise with other parts of the service, GPs, non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
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We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset. Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Angelika Luehrs
- Job title: Consultant
- Email address: angelika.luehrs@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01380 731292
Email: angelika.luehrs@nhs.net
Phone: 01380 731292
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