Consultant Older Adult | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist in Older Adults, for old age psychiatry inpatient care, Cazaubon ward, East Ham Care Centre, Shrewsbury Road E7 8QP

This 10PA position became available after the previous consultant retired.

The appointee will have clinical responsibility for the care of acute elderly male and female inpatients from Tower Hamlets, Newham, City and Hackney on Cazaubon Ward.

Closing date: 30th December 2024

AAC Panel Interview: 9th January 2025 (PM)

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.

The 1.0 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) job plan will be developed to meet the needs of the service and is envisaged to include 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and 2.5 PAs for supporting programmed activities (SPA). The main duties of the post consist of providing consultant input to Cazaubon ward assessing patients, devising management plans and providing clinical leadership.