Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health (Acute Inpatient)

Cedar Ward is a 10 bedded in-patient unit, located at West Park Hospital, Darlington. Cedar Ward provides psychiatric intensive inpatient care to acutely unwell and disturbed female and male clients, aged 16-65 years. It provides intensive care for all clients requiring a high level of care from the County Durham, Northallerton and Harrogate area. The unit includes a seclusion room and clients generally have to be detained under the Mental Health Act prior to admission.

There is a vacancy for a full-time (10PA) consultant post to work in Cedar Ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) based at West Park Hospital in Darlington. This is a replacement post and an exciting opportunity to be part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team working in a dynamic and highly specialised environment.

Cedar Ward is one of two PICUs within the trust. The other PICU is Bedale Ward and this is located at Roseberry Park Hospital in Middlesbrough. Cedar Ward takes referrals for patients based in the geographical areas of Durham, Darlington, Easington, Northallerton and Harrogate. Bedale Ward takes referrals from patients based in Teesside (Hartlepool, Stockton, Redcar and Cleveland and Middlesbrough), York and Scarborough.

The main inpatient beds for the South Durham locality are located at West Park Hospital. There are two wards admitting patients with acute mental health problems at West Park Hospital (Maple and Elm Wards). These inpatient wards will provide the inpatient psychiatric care to the acutely unwell clients from Darlington and South Durham areas.

West Park Hospital also has 15 bedded Willow Ward for Rehabilitation Psychiatry., 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.