Consultant Psychiatrist in Old Age Psychiatry

This is a full-time post, though less than full time applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. The Consultant will provide input working to a 6 Direct clinical care and 2 supporting professional activities work programme to the Springwood unit. In addition, the post holder will have 1.5 Direct clinical care and 0.5 supporting professional activities sessions with Scarborough Memory services. This post is a refresh and combination of existing posts.

The rationale behind this post is to embody the trust ethos of wellbeing and create sustainable, sought-after consultant roles within each locality of the trust. It will provide support to the ward during the current Consultants secondment.

The Consultant will be expected to provide Clinical input and leadership to Springwood 14 bedded dementia care stepdown inpatient ward at the Springwood unit. The Consultant will be part of the shared leadership on the ward and provide clinical and educational supervision to junior doctors posted with the team. Consultant will also provide clinical leadership to Scarborough memory service as above working with a speciality doctor who is already in the post for the Scarborough Memory services.

The ward and this consultant post are supported by a foundation year doctor (FY1 or 2) or a Trust Grade doctor. There are no higher Trainee posts attached to this post. In addition, an international fellowship doctor post has been temporarily added to support this vacant consultant post.

MHSOP provision in the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale (SWR) includes the following services.

MHSOP Inpatient Services

Springwood Complex Needs Unit at Springwood (This Post) is a dementia care complex needs unit with 14 beds. Springwood provides care for people usually over the age of 65 who need specialist dementia care and mental health nursing care. This is a stepdown unit, and the unit does not take direct acute admissions.

Rowan Lea Ward (not this post) at the Cross Lane Hospital is a 20-bed inpatient assessment and treatment ward for older people with mental health problems. It caters for patients with both functional and organic illnesses. Average bed occupancy over 12 months 92%, Total admissions in 12 months 110, Total discharges in 10 months 68, Average length of stay (spell) 87 days, Total Ward stays (this is different as includes transfers from other wards and to other wards): 184, Average length of days (spell) 38 days and number of new detentions and renewals is at an average of 11 per months over the last 1 year.

Community Mental health and Memory Services - MHSOP community mental health and memory services in Scarborough Whitby and Ryedale area are provided by two Community Mental Health Teams i.e., Scarborough CMHT which is based in Cross Lane Hospital and Ryedale CMHT which is based in Princess Road Clinic in Malton., We are Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. We provide mental health and learning disability services to people of all ages.

We deliver a range of community and in-patient care across adult mental health, children and young peoples services, mental health services for older people and forensic services. We have over 7,000 staff working across more than 90 sites.

With an annual operating income of over £420 million, we work in partnership with local authorities, clinical commissioning groups, voluntary organisations, the private sector, as well as people who use our services, their families and carers.Geographically were one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the country, spanning County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby.

There are two care groups i.e., North - Durham & Tees Valley (which includes forensic services) and South - North Yorkshire, York and Selby. In terms of clinical specialties, these comprise

£105,504 to £139,882 a year The post may be subject to a recruitment premia