This is a community post working with an established learning disability team serving the Northumberland area. The population served is approximately 450,000. The consultant in post will work with the Community Learning Disability Team, which incorporates Positive Behavioural Support and Psychology, and will be based in Ashmore House in Ashington, which is the primary base for the team. However, the team work closely with the wider community learning disability service which sits with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will provide senior clinical expertise in the assessment and treatment of people with a learning disability and mental health problems. There is a population of learning disability forensic patients living within the area for whom the post holder will have some responsibility. In addition, the post holder will be expected to work closely with social workers, specialist nurses and the risk and independence team who are employed by Northumbria
Health Care Trust and who hold Care Programme Approach responsibility for this group of patients. The medical staff meetings are monthly forums to meet with colleagues, which the post holder would be encouraged to attend alongside the trust wide medical staff meetings that include consultant colleagues from all the other specialties within CNTW. The post holder will also join the well-established peer group for community consultants in learning disability for the purposes of revalidation.