Consultant Psychiatrist - North Somerset IST

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Intensive Support Team, based at the Long Fox Unit, Weston General Hospital. You will join a well established team who are the gate keeping and discharging agent for inpatient services, providing expert assessment to individuals experiencing mental health crisis within four hours of referral. You will join a supportive medical community dedicated to making changes for the better and will be encouraged and supported to be involved in service leadership and management.
As the Consultant you will deliver direct interventions to service users at a level of intensity according to need including those service users who require an assertive approach who are difficult to engage. This will include on-going assessment, diagnoses (including review and clarification) and treatment of mental and physical health needs.
You will be responsible for the mental healthcare of all service users through daily reviews, attending the review daily themselves Monday to Wednesday.
You will manage the delivery of intensive home treatment and alternatives to hospital admissions.
You will supervise the medical team that provides medical care and may act as RC for service users in collaboration with other teams and Consultants.
You will collaboratively work with the Inpatient teams to provide dedicated lead Consultant input to acute care service coordination by meeting the needs of the service user and enabling timely access to inpatient services or recovery services, ensuring that CPA planning and aftercare arrangements are in place.
You will participate in gate keeping and attendance at MHA assessments where appropriate, as well as facilitating CTO discussions.
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.
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