Consultant Psychiatrist in Acute Inpatient AMH

The post holder will act as Responsible Clinician for In Patients admitted under care in the ward (responsibility shared with paired Consultant).

The Consultants will jointly chair the 24 hour Morning Report Out meeting when decisions are made about patient care and the management plan, risk and leave arrangements are reviewed. Tasks are allocated at the meeting and reviewed the following morning.

The Consultant will attend and fully contribute to the 72 formulation meeting and discharge planning meetings for their own patients.

The post holder will be expected to provide appropriate supervision to Junior Medical Staff.

The post holder will be expected to liaise with community teams and Consultants.

Consultant annual leave is arranged on mutual cover basis with paired consultant or other inpatient consultants or if required with Community Consultants as appropriate

The Tees Adult Mental health services comprises of 4 localities: Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland. Each locality has Intensive Home Treatment and Crisis Services, functionally split Affective & Access and Psychosis (with embedded Assertive Outreach) Community Teams. Each locality has its own EIP Service with close links to the Community Psychosis Teams.

Teesside Adult mental Health Service also has a Crisis Assessment Suite located in Roseberry Park.

In Patient Services for Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool, and Redcar & Cleveland are based at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough, a new purpose built Inpatient (IP) hospital opened in 2010. There are 4 Adult Mental Health Wards (64 beds in total) and a 10 bedded Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.

Rehabilitation Services is provided from In Patient units based in Stockton. There is a 24 hour Liaison Service which provides a service to all Acute Hospitals in the Tees area.

Commissioning arrangements are through two CCGs: Hartlepool and Stockton CCG and South Tees CCG., We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas.

We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust take a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be, helping TEWV to do things better.