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1.      Day-to-day management of the inpatients on the wards. This will include contribution to ward-rounds (including typing contemporaneous clinical notes into the electronic patient records), CPA review, discharge planning meetings, and Mental Health Act managers or tribunal hearings.  This will be under the clinical supervision of the dedicated inpatient consultants from the team. Clinical Supervision will rotate between the consultants as agreed.

2.      Liaison with the Community Mental Health team to ensure co-ordinated clinical care of patients.

3.      Support the assessment and management of patients brought to the Health Based Place of Safety

4.      Providing timely written correspondence to relevant professionals documenting assessments, ongoing management, progress, and discharge summaries using Trust IT and clinical records system – training will be provided where needed.

5.      Work collaboratively with other agencies, liaison with staff from other teams to manage smooth and timely transfer into and out of the unit.  The teams most commonly involved with this will be the Adult Community Mental Health Teams, and Ashurst Ward Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.

6.      Active commitment to delivering the Trust’s clinical governance agenda.  Wards will lead their own governance agenda including audit, quality, patient experience, learning from incidents, patient safety initiatives and interrogation of data. The senior leadership team comprising of matron, consultant and ward manager will link with division both identifying areas of concern and feeding back actions.

7.      Contribution to developing and delivering improved clinical services.

8.      The post holder will be expected to contribute to the collection of data as required by the Trust and other relevant agencies.  This includes the timely recording of clinical activity data, and participation in clinical audit -with appropriate administrative support.

9.      The post holder will normally cross-cover with specialty doctor and trainees for Ashurst Ward for annual leave, study leave and brief periods of sickness absence.   Occasional cover may be required for Allen, Wintle and Vaughan Thomas wards.

10.   Post holder will administer ECT on a rota with the other specialty doctors and trainees under exceptional circumstances. ECT is supervised by a consultant and training will be given if ad hoc input is required.