Consultant Psychiatrist - Medical Bank

Job summary

We are recruiting part-time or full time Consultants to work remotely (home working) to conduct community and older adult clinics and provide remote supervision to SAS and CESR Fellows. You will need experience of working in an NHS Mental Health setting within the last six months and ideally have AC/RC status and should be registered with GMC with licence to practice. These posts are for Community and Older Adults specialities and if you are interested in more information please call Karen Asher, Head of Medical Workforce on 07518 294785.

Main duties of the job

• Share in the provision of a comprehensive psychiatric service including responsibility for the diagnosis, risk management and treatment of mental disorder including preparing reports for and participating in Mental Health Act and other regulatory processes.
• Take clinical responsibility as a Responsible Clinician for the assessment and management of patients within the service
• Offer a consistent response to referrer/patients regardless of origin of referral in a timely fashion.
• Deliver evidence-based treatments.
• Provide specialist advice and support to patients, carers, and professionals.
• Provide a second opinion for colleagues for patients from other catchment areas.
• Provide expert advice and a consultation service on clinical issues.
• Undertake Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act assessments and reviews as required.
• Comply with statutory duties of the post as required by the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and to provide leadership to the teams in this area.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information to patients, carers, and professionals.
• The post holder should work flexibly, be accessible and provide appropriate response to patients.

About us

'Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire.

Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work.

We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall.In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future.'