Consultant Psychiatrist - Older Adult In-patients

service is also based in Highgate East. Highgate West Mental Health Unit is approximately a 2 minute walk away from Highgate East. In Highgate West there are ten wards: 8 acute wards and 2 PICUs. At Highgate West there is also a Place of Safety and a Mental Health Crisis Assessment Service. Together Highgate West and East make up the Highgate Campus. Medical cover for Garnet is 0.3 of a higher trainee, a full time core trainee and also a full time foundation doctor. The ward is part of an integrated acute care pathway with our Camden and Islington older peoples community health teams, community recovery centre for older people and award-winning Home Treatment Team for Older Adults. There is a weekly bed management meeting between all of these teams which is attended by the senior clinical leads. The pathway has been very successful in increasing the number of older adults that have been able to be treated in their own homes over the last few years with a reduction of 33%

The post-holder will provide clinical leadership to Garnet ward and ECT (on average) one session per week. Garnet Ward Garnet ward is a 14 bedded ward for older adults with a primary diagnosis of an organic mental illness. The post-holder is expected to review patients together with the MDT on the ward on a regular basis. They will act as the Responsible Clinician for patients on Garnet ward who are detained under the Mental Health Act. They will also be expected to provide clinical supervision to the trainee doctors working on the ward. The ward is managed by a full-time ward manager and 2 full-time charge nurses. There is a full time OT and activities co-ordinator that are shared between Garnet and Pearl (our other Older Adult ward) and also input from a psychologist. The ward is based in the newly built Highgate East Mental Health Unit. This unit opened in January 2025. There are five wards in Highgate East: two older adults wards and three rehabilitation wards. The Liaison