Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Job summary

This is a new post that has come about as a result of service development. You will join a well-established Core 24 team covering a large teaching hospital in Coventry and two smaller district general hospitals in Warwick and Nuneaton. This post will cover George Eliot Hospital, Nuneaton with minimal cross cover at the other sites. We see age 17+ and have additional dementia psychiatrist support onsite.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites.

Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards and elderly care wards and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire.

CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels.

The benefits to joining CWPT are:

• NHS pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice scheme & discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme
• Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Coaching and mentoring
• Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service
• Bespoke research & innovation department closely linked to local universities
• Four lovely substantive consultants who all get on with each other and with our wider team. Regular liaison medics social events.
• The opportunity to develop a special interest within liaison - we have someone into brain injury / T&O links, autism, NEAD, DKA / T1DE, dementia pathways & palliative care.
• Consistent allocation of two higher trainees to our team each rotation & likely another for this post
• No out of area bed use over the last 6 months
• A large well-established nursing team who are great at the risk assessment work
• An outpatient follow-up MDT with OT & psychology for functional disorders
• Service development / QI including massive improvement in our KPIs this year, ED triage & a proposal to expand our offer to support HIUs.