Consultant Psychiatrist - Specialised Services (Offender Health)

at  Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the community mental health team at HMP Eastwood Park.
This post has become available as the consultant psychiatrist currently in post is retiring in July 2024.
The role of the post holder within the Prison Mental Health Service will be to provide clinical leadership and assurance for the prison community mental health team.
The post holder is expected to provide specialist assessment and management recommendations for patients, and to provide clinical support to the mental health/wellbeing teams.
The psychiatrists within the teams do not carry individual caseloads as such but will be expected to jointly manage patients with the allocated registered practitioner from the team, until such time as psychiatric involvement is no longer clinically indicated.
The Consultant 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.
To provide advice to members of the multi-disciplinary prison community mental health team, including through regular attendance at the weekly Team MDT meetings.
To hold CPA meetings for clients in need of secondary care.
To visit patients on the prison wings, with the support of a member of the mental health team, if the client is unable to attend Pathways (a Unit akin to a GP practice within the prison) if clinically indicated.
To liaise with other parts of the service and GPs and non NHS organisations wherever applicable.
To liaise with the Community and Inpatient services as appropriate to facilitate the smooth handover of clients between services.
To assess clients for s47 / s48 Mental Health Act transfers and to complete medical recommendations as clinically indicated.
To actively participate in team and personal caseload management and supervision.
To attend s117 pre discharge planning meetings for those being remitted to prison.
To attend MAPPA meetings as clinically indicated.
To provide day-to-day clinical supervision for post-graduate doctors in training
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.
Please refer to the accompanying job description for full details on the roles and responsibilities of this pos

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