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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.

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning Essential
• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit., Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change.
Leadership Essential
• Reflects on own performance and behaviour, seeking and acting on feedback.
• Able to influence and persuade to improve services
• Able to take on leadership role in multidisciplinary team.
• Knowledge of structure and management of the NHS and the Trust.
• Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology OR able to achieve within one year of appointment
• Able to adapt to and lead service change.
Desirable
• Able to take on a leadership role outside the multidisciplinary team.
• Understanding of NHS & wider health economy and its implications for the work of the Trust.
• Trained to standard equivalent to level 2 in TEWV Trust Quality improvement system
Qualifications Essential
• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Experience
• MRCPsych, Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for Old Age Psychiatry OR included within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
  
  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.