Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry - PCLS - Wiltshire
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Consultant Psychiatrist - Primary Care Liaison Service
We are seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join the Primary Care Liaison Service in Wiltshire. The post is an established post which has become vacant due to the previous incumbent moving to another service within AWP.
About the Role
The post involves working as the Primary Care Liaison consultant for a single CMHT catchment area in North, West and East Wiltshire. The post is supported by a Specialty Doctor.
The consultant (post holder) will provide clinical leadership in the team, help triage referrals, assess patients and make recommendations on care, provide advice to colleagues on assessment and management, liaising and working closely with the Intensive Service, Community Mental Health Team and Primary Care.
There is a weekly interface meeting which is attended by PCLS, CMHTs, Primary Care Psychology and North Wiltshire Intensive Service. The consultant will work closely with the PCLS Manager to ensure that a safe, efficient and high quality service is delivered by the Team. The Consultant will also provide clinical supervision and management supervision for doctors reporting to them.
Responsibilities
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- Deliver advice to service users including undertaking assessments, (jointly where required), making diagnoses, and determining the most appropriate service provision to meet identified needs, including brief interventions where required.
- Supervise any medical staff providing input into the service.
- Actively participate in clinical supervision.
- Work collaboratively with the Recovery, Intensive and Inpatient Services to facilitate transitions through the care pathway according to the identified care cluster.
- Contribute to the development of services in line with best practice and nationally accredited standards.
- Responsible with the team members for the identification of appropriate care cluster and identifying service users who require access to specialist services.
- Understand and participate in the maintenance, monitoring and evaluation of service specific performance indicators and targets.
Requirements
- Respond to all Advice and Guidance requests within 3-5 working days in accordance with the new PCLS Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). The requestors will primarily be GP, ARRS’ Workers, RMN’s based in GP surgeries, and at times, although scarce, other medical specialists based in Acute and Community Hospitals.
- Training and supervision of junior medical staff.
- Medical and MDT teaching and supervision.
- Regular attendance at the PCLS Team MDT meetings.
- Participate in QI.
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About Us
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
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