Consultant Psychiatrist - Older Adults - Dudley

Applications are invited for a full time Consultant in Old Age Psychiatry based at Bushey Fields Hospital Dudley to join 2 existing Consultants. This existing post is within a well-established supportive service working both on the in-patient wards and in the community, having retained the Continuity of Care model. The Consultant will lead a team of other doctors; CPNs; Social Workers and Occupational Therapists, and together with the existing workforce cover the communities of Dudley, Stourbridge and Halesowen in the Black Country. We are also developing new models and methods of working which will include liaison to primary care within the MCP model, and have developed an Old Age Home Treatment Team., There are opportunities for someone with an enthusiasm for leadership to become involved in all other aspects of career development such as medical management and research. As a training and teaching Trust there are opportunities to teach postgraduate psychiatric and GP trainees and undergraduates from Birmingham and Grenada Universities and newly formed links with Aston Medical School. Links to local Universities have always been strong and input to Birmingham and Wolverhampton Universities is welcomed.

This is a teaching Trust providing training for medical undergraduates from Birmingham University and postgraduate training as part of the School of Psychiatry, West Midlands Deanery.