Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- MC75
- Contract
- Fixed term: 3 months (1st June 2025 - 1st September 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 333-J-WE-SA-0014
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gordon Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 plus £2162 London weighting allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Speciality Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry (HTT)
MC75
Job overview
We are currently looking for a Speciality Doctor for short-term cover in the South Westminster Home Treatment Team, based at the Gordon Hospital.
The post is a full time role (10 PA's) consisting of 8.5 PA DCC & 1.5 PA SPA time, with an anticipated start date of 1st of June 2025. Dr Rebecca Hatton is the part time substantive consultant and named clinical supervisor for this post and weekly clinical supervision is provided by Dr Hatton. There is a FY (Foundation Year) doctor on the team and Dr Arabo Shahenian, NWHTT consultant provides cross-cover for the team when Dr Hatton is not around and is named clinical supervisor for this post.
Main duties of the job
Westminster Home Treatment Team is an acute mental health service that provides an alternative to hospital admission and facilitates early discharge. The team provides intensive management and support to people in the community.
Westminster Home Treatment Team has two bases – one in the South of the Borough (at the Gordon Hospital) and the other in the North of the borough (Woodfield Road). This role will be based in South Westminster. The doctors provide cross cover in terms of medical support. There may be infrequent occasions where team requests phone advice or assistance in prescribing, if they do not have any doctors available.
Working for our organisation
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (CNWL) specialises in caring for people with a wide range of physical and mental health needs.
The Trust provides the following clinical services:
• A wide range of community health services, including adult and child physical and Dental care services.
• Intermediate physical healthcare, admission and supported discharge
• Palliative Care
• A comprehensive range of mental health services for adults, from early intervention and psychological therapies to inpatient treatment or long-term rehabilitation care.
• Specialist mental health services for children and adolescents.
• Dedicated mental health services for older people.
• Substance misuse services for drugs, alcohol and the new group of ‘club drugs’, provided in the community
• Specialist addiction services available nationally for problems with gambling and compulsive behaviours.
• Inpatient, outpatient and day patient eating disorders services.
• Inpatient and outpatient learning disability services.
• Mental health, addictions and primary health care services in many HM Prisons and YOI.
• Sexual and reproductive health services
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Conduct medical reviews of patients under HTT care, as allocated in Clinical Review Meetings, or as requested by team or Consultant Psychiatrist.
2. Reviews primarily take place at the base (Gordon Hospital) or in patient’s homes
3. Prescribing and review of medication of patients on the caseload, including monitoring side effects
4. Provide consultation to the rest of the team, undertaking reviews with other team members, attending professionals’ meetings.
5. Support of team particularly regarding risk management, including where it may be appropriate to escalate to emergency services/ MHAA/ MHCAS
6. Attend team Clinical Review Meetings (CRM), team reflection meetings and service development meetings as needed.
7. Carry out liaison and collaborative working with other services/agencies and across internal interfaces as necessary for patient care and service development. This includes but is not limited to inpatient services, community teams, AMHPs, safeguarding services and Psychology.
8. Ensure that patient’s physical health needs are addressed, with support from the Foundation Year (FY) team doctor.
9. Carry out regular review and monitoring of the caseload including via consultant supervision to ensure discharges facilitated to maintain patient flow, including collaborative working with community teams to transition care where appropriate.
10. Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely manner, physical health recording, progress note entries, and risk assessments for patients on caseload.
11. Keep up to date with appraisals, mandatory training, all revalidation requirements.
12. Attend an SAS peer group for RCpsych CPD purposes and remain in good standing with RCPsych for CPD at all times.
Rider Clause This is an outline of the post-holder’s duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time in order to meet the changing needs of the Trust and Department.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach
- • Able to work effectively in a team
- • Able to build constructive relationships
- • Person-centred in clinical approach
- • Ability to perform full physical examinations and to undertake basic routine tests such as venepuncture, ECG, Q Risk determination
- • Basic IT skills
Desirable criteria
- • Advanced IT literacy
- • Cognitive assessment using screening tests
Other
Essential criteria
- • Commitment to multi-disciplinary team working
- • Commitment to Continuing Personal Development
- • Ability to be flexible and work as part of a changing dynamic team and organisation
- • Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust
- • Ability to work on own initiative
Desirable criteria
- • Effective teaching skills
- • Involvement in Quality Improvement
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Primary Medical degree
- • Full GMC registration
Desirable criteria
- • MRCPsych Paper A or equivalent
- • Post-graduate psychiatric training
- • Section 12 approval/eligible to become approved within 3 months of starting in post
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- • Completed at least 3 years of full time post graduate training in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- • Clinical audit
- • Teaching others
- • Working with an MDT
- • Experience of being on-call out of hours
- • Previous experience of working in CRHTT
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rebecca Hatton
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Applicants may contact the following key people to discuss the post in detail and if possible arrange an informal visit:
Consultant Psychiatrist:
Dr Rebecca Hatton [email protected]
Clinical director:
Dr Sujaa Arokiadass [email protected]
Assistant director for Mental Health services:
Gillian Rennie [email protected]
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