Consultant Older Adult

This full time post is inpatient based with an excellent, stable and well-resourced multidisciplinary inpatient team in Tower Hamlets Centre for Mental Health (Cazaubon ward). There is good support from a collegiate consultant body within the older adults' teams and TH Directorate.

Cazaubon ward is based in East Ham Care Centre and provides inpatient care for older adults with both organic and functional illness, with a focus on dementia care. Inpatients are from Tower Hamlets, Newham, City and Hackney. This post is for a full time consultant covering the 19 beds on Cazaubon ward. The ward aims for 85% occupancy but can be occupied up to the 19 beds.

The ward has a ward manager and shares a matron. There are specialist diabetes nursing, dietician, tissue viability, physiotherapy and speech & language therapy input onto the ward. The baseline staffing on the ward is 2 RMN's and 3 Social therapists during the day, 2 RMN's & 2 Social Therapists at night with the flexibility to increase staff with increase in acuity/demands. There are also 2 full time qualified OT's, 1 Full time OT assistant, and 0.5 WTE therapist time including psychology, art, and music. A discharge co-ordinator is also employed and covers three older adult mental health wards.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.