Job summary
We are delighted to bring to advert the post of Trust Locum Consultant Psychiatrist at Aspire in the city of Leeds - a culturally diverse city with an estimated population of 780,000. Aspire is a city wide, community based First Episode Psychosis Service delivered by a specialist multidisciplinary team with input from the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). The service's principles are engagement, hope and recovery. It supports people to find their own level of recovery, fostering hope for the future and encouraging individuals to lead an ordinary life in their community. The team works in collaboration with service users, carers and families using a bio-psycho-social model, delivering service at the most appropriate location and environment.
This post has become available due to the need for maternity leave cover for the current substantive post holder and will be available between Sept 2024 and Sept 2025.
Main duties of the job
Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? WE need 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.
Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.
The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:
- Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives
- Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work
- Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services
As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here
About us
LYPFT now offer a revised and increased starting salary for newly appointed consultants to the Trust. All newly appointed will be started on £105,390 at pay point YC72 (point 04).
We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:
- Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
- Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of Consultant contract,
- On-site parking
- Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
- Wide -range of Health & Wellbeing benefits
This is a 6 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties
We want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.
*subject to conditions.
What you will get:
- Supportive and friendly colleagues
- Personalised Coaching and Mentoring
- Weekly academic teaching
- Access to NHS Leadership and Development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
- Annual Medical Leadership development day
- Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Aspire provides a specialist service to people aged between 14 and 65 in Leeds and has 3 main pathways; full caseload for up to three years, extended assessment for up to 3 months and the new At Risk Mental State (ARMS) pathway.
As of Jan 30th 2024, the total caseload for the team is 438. The average number of referrals per month (in 2023) was 55 per month and the average number of discharges per month was 15-20. The commissioned number of cases for the service is 428 and currently review and implementation of the inclusion criteria is underway, as is supported discharge planning in team supervision to ensure the service does not continue to exceed commissioned capacity.
The post holder will work with the MDT, colleagues and other agencies to deliver safe and effective care to patients. The service commitments are divided between the 2 consultants during the job planning process.
The post holder, supported by the MDT, will provide:
- Regular clinical reviews
- Flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews
- To undertake the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA 1983 care
- Complex prescribing and review
- Effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals and statutory organisations
- An expectation to work intensively and assertively with the client group
- To contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community team
- To work collaboratively with other services within the Trust
- To provide professional leadership
- To provide one hour a week protected clinical supervision to any trainees in the service for which they are the clinical supervisor
- To work jointly with the Clinical Leadership Structure, Operations Manager and Head of Operations and those in other agencies to ensure the service is delivered successfully
- Support for non medical prescribers in training and afterwards
Job description
Job responsibilities
Aspire provides a specialist service to people aged between 14 and 65 in Leeds and has 3 main pathways; full caseload for up to three years, extended assessment for up to 3 months and the new At Risk Mental State (ARMS) pathway.
As of Jan 30th 2024, the total caseload for the team is 438. The average number of referrals per month (in 2023) was 55 per month and the average number of discharges per month was 15-20. The commissioned number of cases for the service is 428 and currently review and implementation of the inclusion criteria is underway, as is supported discharge planning in team supervision to ensure the service does not continue to exceed commissioned capacity.
The post holder will work with the MDT, colleagues and other agencies to deliver safe and effective care to patients. The service commitments are divided between the 2 consultants during the job planning process.
The post holder, supported by the MDT, will provide:
- Regular clinical reviews
- Flexibility to accommodate urgent clinical reviews
- To undertake the duties of Responsible Clinician for those subject to the MHA 1983 care
- Complex prescribing and review
- Effective liaison with local mental health providers, local authority professionals and statutory organisations
- An expectation to work intensively and assertively with the client group
- To contribute to and work as part of the multidisciplinary community team
- To work collaboratively with other services within the Trust
- To provide professional leadership
- To provide one hour a week protected clinical supervision to any trainees in the service for which they are the clinical supervisor
- To work jointly with the Clinical Leadership Structure, Operations Manager and Head of Operations and those in other agencies to ensure the service is delivered successfully
- Support for non medical prescribers in training and afterwards
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC
- Higher specialist training in WAA Psychiatry
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Track record in QIP work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Full registration with the GMC
- Higher specialist training in WAA Psychiatry
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Track record in QIP work
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
