Consultant Psychiatrist, HTT, SW & NE Hants (attracts £25K RRP)

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Home Treatment Team. The HTT provides intensive community care underpinned by the principles of acute & dynamic, clinically focused risk management. The multidisciplinary team develop individual care plans for each patient to work towards step down to less intensive clinical support & provide early intervention to avoid admission.

The postholder will be responsible for providing clinical input and leadership to our community service based at Farnham Road Hospital in Guildford & our Theta service in Frimley and works alongside a multidisciplinary team in accordance with New Ways of Working.

The HTT interfaces with Inpatient Acute Services, Single Point of Access Triage Services, the Section 136 Places of Safety, Community Services, Liaison Services & the Criminal Justice System. Most patients are referred from CMHRS & Liaison Services., You will be responsible for providing clinical input and leadership to the Southwest Home Treatment Team, which covers the Guildford and Waverley Localities and into the North East Hants Home Treatment Team that covers Hart, Rushmoor and Surrey Heath.

You will work with consultant colleagues and local managers to develop safe, clinical and cost-effective services in Surrey. The post holder will be expected to work constructively with Surrey and Borders Trust managers (including the Associate Medical Director) and with local commissioners to deliver and develop a strategy to ensure that the Trust remains the provider of choice for liaison services., Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.