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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 6 sessions per week
Job ref
354-FH-20495
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Firs
Town
Hellingly
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist to play a key role in a new development within the Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLS). Due to securing additional funding, Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLS) is currently expanding to provide specialist support to Service Users with Learning Disability and/or neurodevelopmental needs who have offending histories or present a risk to others.

The post holder will provide Consultant input to Forensic Outreach and Liaison Service (FOLS) across Sussex

Main duties of the job

·         To liaise with statutory and non-statutory (Probation, Police, Court, Social Services, voluntary organisations/agencies) to assist in the management of mentally disordered offenders (approximately 3-4 referrals pa)

·         To act as an Approved/Responsible Clinician for patients' subject to the mental health act and on caseload and to carry out MHA assessments as required.

·         To assess the patients who are presently in low security with regard to their suitability for community placement and community risk management.

·         To manage a case-load of approximately 30-40 pro-rata community patients, some of which are conditionally discharged restricted patients. The Forensic service manages all conditionally discharged S41 patient.

·         To participate in the weekly referrals meeting

·         To offer training to professional audiences as appropriate

·         To participate in the Consultant on-call rota in relevant geographical area.

Working for our organisation

SPFT is a large NHS organisation that offers clinical and social care services to children, young people, adults and older adults, with emotional and mental health problems or learning disabilities. We provide services to the people of Brighton and Hove, East and West Sussex with Children & Young People’s Services provided across Sussex and Hampshire. The Trust operates as part of a wider network of health and social care and works in partnership with both statutory and non-statutory agencies. The Trust benefits from a thriving Sussex-wide psychiatry training scheme where HE Kent, Surrey and Sussex provide foundation, GP, core and higher trainees. We work closely with Brighton and Sussex Medical School, in 2015 we became a member of the Association of UK University Hospitals, the representative body for university hospitals with major teaching and research interests across the UK and internationally. Our vision is to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve. The clinical strategy and organisational strategy we have developed underpin this by providing frameworks to enable sustained improvements in the quality of care we provide. With our Integrated Care System partners, we have developed a compelling case for change in mental health services which strives to improve the links between health and social care to better serve our communities. The Trust is rated by the CQC as Good for being safe, effective, responsive and well-led and as Outstanding for caring.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is envisaged that the post holder would have a caseload of approximately 30-40 pro-rate community patients 

·         To provide a regular liaison service to adult psychiatric services in the catchment area regarding risk management (approximately two referrals per week)

·         To provide occasional assessments of prisoners thought not to require hospital admission whose home area is within the catchment area

·         To liaise with statutory and non-statutory (Probation, Police, Court, Social Services, voluntary organisations/agencies) to assist in the management of mentally disordered offenders (approximately 3-4 referrals pa)

·         To act as an Approved/Responsible Clinician for patients subject to the mental health act and on caseload and to carry out MHA assessments as required.

·         To assess the patients who are presently in low security with regard to their suitability for community placement and community risk management.

·         To manage a case-load of approximately 30-40 community patients (pro-rata), some of which are conditionally discharged restricted patients. The Forensic service manages all conditionally discharged S41 patient.

·         To participate in the weekly referrals meeting

·         To offer training to professional audiences as appropriate

·         To participate in the East Sussex on-call rota.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
  • 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.
  • In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Eligibility

Essential criteria
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Excellent knowledge in specialty
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Desirable criteria
  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

Essential criteria
  • Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
  • Ability to work in and lead team
  • Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
  • Participated in continuous professional development
  • Participated in research or service evaluation
  • Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
  • Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
  • 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.
Desirable criteria
  • Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
  • Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
  • Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
  • Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
  • Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Transport

Essential criteria
  • Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Syed Ali
Job title
Lead Consultant Psychiatrist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0300 304 1841
Additional information

Mardel Peppos, Service Manager

Office: Tel No: 0300 304 0248 or 0300 304 0712

Skype: 0300 304 2269

Skype Ext: 102269

Email: [email protected]

 

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