Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry & Senior Lecturer

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

The Trust is seeking a clinical academic consultant liaison psychiatrist to join the Hospital Mental Health Team (Working Age Adult) at the Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust hospital site. This vacancy is 10 PA substantive post in Liaison Psychiatry (Working Age Adult Hospital Mental Health Team), split as 5 clinical and 5 academic sessions. As part of the academic role, the successful candidate will join an established clinical academic research team to support and develop on-going programmes of clinical and health services research linked to existing programmes in psychological medicine.

Main duties of the job

Clinical role: To work with the Hospital Mental Health Team to ensure that patients referred from general hospital wards to liaison psychiatry team are assessed and managed appropriately and to provide medical expertise and medical leadership within a multi-disciplinary team.

Research role: Pursuing, leading and developing the strategic direction of clinical and mental health services research in the area of psychological medicine. Work in partnership with Head of R&D to exemplify the Trust's values and deliver the Trust's R&D goals as set out in the Research Strategic Plan and develop and implement a vision for future high-quality research within the organisation.

About us

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

Date posted

05 August 2022

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£84,559 to £114,003 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

173-61422-MED

Job locations

Liaison Psychiatry Medics

Leeds

LS9 7BE

Job description

Job responsibilities

This is a clinical academic consultant liaison psychiatrist post. Clinically, the postholder will work with the Hospital Mental Health Team and provide medical leadership and medical expertise to the MDT and ensure that patients referred from general hospital wards are assessed and managed appropriately.

In the academic role the post holder will pursue, lead and develop the strategic direction of clinical and mental health services research in the area of psychological and social medicine, attracting research income on an individual and collaborative basis to underpin high quality research activity and programmes/projects.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBBS, A higher degree (MD or PhD) in a field related to the medical sciences

Eligibility

Essential

Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.

Knowledge

Essential

Outstanding knowledge of mental health research pertaining (but not restricted) to either CAMHS, dementia or liaison psychiatry

Teaching

Essential

Significant experience of teaching effectively at all levels within higher education

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in Liaison Psychiatry/ Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBBS, A higher degree (MD or PhD) in a field related to the medical sciences

Eligibility

Essential

Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.

Knowledge

Essential

Outstanding knowledge of mental health research pertaining (but not restricted) to either CAMHS, dementia or liaison psychiatry

Teaching

Essential

Significant experience of teaching effectively at all levels within higher education

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in Liaison Psychiatry/ Endorsement in Liaison Psychiatry

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.