Consultant Psychiatrist in Liaison Psychiatry

There is a vacancy for a full time Consultant post to join Liaison Psychiatry in the North Tees team offering working age Liaison Psychiatry services to North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The vacancy is as a result of the retirement of the current post holder. There is also a part-time Older Persons Consultant Psychiatrist in the North Tees Team, and Adult and Older Persons Consultant Psychiatrists in the South Tees Team. There are currently 10 Adult Consultant Psychiatrists covering all aspects of Mental Health in the Stockton and Hartlepool area, Recent investment has resulted in the Tees Liaison Psychiatry service extending to provide age appropriate assessment and short term interventions spanning the age range from 18 and over, across 24 hours. The service consists of two teams, one based in the South of Tees and one based in the North of Tees offering services to the two Acute Trusts within Teesside; South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The model has been fully operational since April 2013. It has provided a unique opportunity to improve services and reduce cost across the health economy of Teesside. Commissioning arrangements are through two CCGs: Hartlepool and Stockton CCG and South Tees CCG Tees Liaison Psychiatry is supported by AMH Services and Mental Health Services for Older People in 4 localities; Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland. Each locality has Intensive Home Treatment and Crisis Services, functionally split Affective and
Psychoses (with embedded Assertive Outreach) Community Teams, a Primary Care Team, a EIP service with close links to the Community Psychosis Teams, an older persons Community Mental Health Team, Memory Services and Intensive Community Service. In-Patient Services for Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland are based at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough; a new purpose built hospital opened in 2010, and for Hartlepool are based at Sandwell Park, Hartlepool.

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.