Consultant Psychiatrist General Adult Psychiatry – Enfield South L T (Consultant) - General Adu[...]

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust – London, Greater London

Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust seeks to appoint an enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Enfield South Locality Team which is based in Lucas House in Enfield. The South Locality Team is one of two Core Community Mental Health Teams (North and South) that together would cover the borough of Enfield. The post is available as the current substantive consultant has taken up a management role.

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Community Services in Enfield. The role offered is that of a Consultant in The Enfield South Locality Team covering one of the Community General Adult Teams in the London Borough of Enfield.

Please see the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications.

This post is awaiting approval by the Royal College of Psychiatrist – submitted for approval on 16.05.2024.

Interviews will be scheduled within 3-4 weeks of the advert closing.

Principal duties will include:

1. Senior clinical leadership to the team and responsibility for the medical care of patients under the care of the team.

The team is a multidisciplinary team comprising of medical staff, nurses, social workers, psychologists and specialist substance misuse workers responsible for the care of patients requiring secondary mental health services.

Currently community services are undergoing transformation as part of the NHS long term plan with investment to support services to offer more personalized care aligned to primary care networks, with better access to psychological therapy and trauma-informed care for people with mental health problems. Work is underway to better integrate care offered across primary and secondary-care, with more joined-up work with partners in the local authority and voluntary sector.

The post-holder will have the opportunity to provide senior medical leadership as the service develops, playing a central role in ensuring that changes are designed and implemented to improve services available to the local community.

The post-holder will work alongside Dr Antonio Albanese, part-time consultant psychiatrist to the service and current Clinical Director for Enfield Community and Older Adult Services.

The advertised post is for a consultant in the Enfield South Locality Team.

The Enfield Consultant body is a close-knit group of 15 colleagues, mostly holding substantive posts, which meet regularly in formal and informal meetings scheduled on a weekly basis via MS teams on a Monday. Various issues are discussed i.e. local and trust-wide managerial issues, vacancies, training concerns, etc. The Clinical Directors (CDs) and Enfield Associate Clinical Director (ACD) regularly attend this meeting and update the consultant body. Consultants are actively encouraged and supportive to take on management and leadership roles and to contribute to the broader strategic planning of the Trust.

Consultants are expected to regularly attend the weekly consultant meeting and the weekly academic program. A monthly Balint-Group for consultants has re-started. This gives opportunity to conduct in-depth case-based discussions (CbD) required for annual appraisals and revalidation. New consultants (up to five years following appointments) are encouraged to link in as a group and are supported by the Medical Leads during their induction.

The post also comes at a time of extra resources being made available to the community services to have a broader remit to engage clients who are traditionally caught between primary and secondary care, offer help at the point of crisis (with the aim of cutting waiting times) and offering evidence based psychological treatment and physical health monitoring in line with national standards.