Consultant Psychiatrist, West Assessment & Treatment Service

at  Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the West Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) in Brighton & Hove. You will be joining a mutually supportive, friendly and enthusiastic team with a real passion for what we do.
Brighton and Hove Community services are split in to two main teams, East and West ATS, each one further subdivided in to 3 smaller clusters. Each cluster has a geographical patch determined by alignment to a small number of GP surgeries, this helps facilitate good liaison with our Primary Care colleagues. This post will be in Stanford Cluster. We are also fortunate to have a large array of third sector organisations in Brighton and Hove whom we have developed strong links with.
We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees. We also provide training for medical students and Physician Associate students from BSMS.
To find out more about we can offer you at SPFT, please follow the link to our careers website here .
We are a large multi-disciplinary community mental health team, which provides specialist assessments and treatment to patients presenting with a range of complex and unstable mental health and social needs.
As a consultant psychiatrist in our team, your main duties will be to:
Provide specialist medical /psychiatric assessment and evidence-based treatment to patients referred to the service.
Provide clinical supervision to the HST and informal advice and supervision to non-medical members of the team
Fulfil the duties of Responsible Clinician for patient’s subject to Community Treatment Orders including attendance at Mangers Hearings and Tribunals.
Mental Health Act assessments for patients on the team caseload
Liaison with inpatient Responsible Clinicians
Liaison with the forensic team/drug and alcohol services and risk panel as required
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
Brighton & Hove is a unique, vibrant and exciting place to live and work, offering a lively city life with the opportunity to get away from it all to the South Downs National park just on the doorstep. The city offers excellent access to London and is in close proximity to Gatwick Airport. Brighton is proud to be a diverse and inclusive city, and this is reflected in the staff mix employed by SPFT, and by the ethos of the Trust.
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.
The successful candidate will work as part of the wider MDT and demonstrate:
Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge;
A wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service;
The ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty;
Commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement;
The ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/ diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our service.
Please see the Job description/ person specification for more details about this post and the organisation.
Wed love you to join our Trust, rated good overall and outstanding for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Qualifications
Essential
MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable
Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
MRCPsych
Eligibility
Essential
Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable
In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Clinical skills & Knowledge
Essential
Excellent knowledge in specialty
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Desirable
Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Please see the attached Job Description document for full details of the role and responsibilities. Please note that t his JD is currently awaiting Royal College Approval

Please refer the Job description for details