An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Specialty Doctor to join the South Gloucestershire Community Mental Health Team for Older People, currently based at Kingswood Civic centre.
The team provides a mental health service for people over the age of 65 in South Gloucestershire. It is a predominantly rural area with 2 main population densities, the semi-rural old market town of Thornbury and the more urban area north of Bristol, including Filton and Patchway. Medical workforce is divided across the east and West of the patch and this post covers the more rural West side of the patch.
This post will form a core component of the Community Mental Health Team for Older People. It includes working mainly in a community and outpatient setting, but also involves close liaison with the inpatient teams based at Southmead hospital and the Bristol Royal infirmary. Its focus is on the management of patients with dementia and/or affective illness.
The Old Age Team is well regarded and works in a multi-disciplinary way with good morale. There are close working relationships with the other members of the team and joint assessments are encouraged. The team meets together once a week to allocate referrals and to discuss recent assessments and ongoing management of patients in the community. The team also works very closely the intensive support team (IST) for service users with functional illness, all of which are co-located in the same building.
This is a career grade post and includes one hour per fortnight protected supervision time with the Consultant. Attendance at the weekly postgraduate programme at Kingswood Civic Centre is encouraged. The post provides good opportunities for professional development in Old Age Psychiatry and offers the chance to broaden knowledge and learn new clinical skills.
The main duties of this post are;
To assess and treat service users in the community and in a clinic.
To attend weekly CMHT MDT meeting and to support the team with medical input as required.
The post holder will be expected to hold a case-load a small caseload of their own, but will support CPN’s and the therapy teams in caring for patients on their caseloads.
To arrange and participate in Professional meetings for service users.
Undertake urgent psychiatric assessments when necessary.
To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
Write up all their notes using the Trusts Electronic Record system RIO which also records time and date of entry. The post holder is personally responsible for entering their notes onto the system themselves.
Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plans
Working for your organisation
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.
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.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
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