Professional Lead Psychiatrist Acute Care East Sussex

The Trust seeks to appoint a motivated Professional Lead Psychiatrist to take responsibility for the overall professional governance of Acute Psychiatry within East Sussex Division. This will complement our current lead posts in Older age Psychiatry and working age adult community . These roles will be pivotal in leading Psychiatry strategy and service planning, ensuring quality of care and supporting performance management and effective use of resources in the Division. This role will be a full time Consultant level post with the post holder working 5 PAs as Professional Lead and up to 6 PAs in a clinical Consultant Psychiatrist role (external applicants must agree the clinical post prior to interview based on one of the current vacancies within the Division). The clinical element of the role will be as a Consultant Psychiatrist in a clinical service within the Division. This can be flexible depending on the qualifications, experience and personal preference of the successful candidate., The Lead Psychiatrist will play a key role in ensuring there is participation from Psychiatry/medical workforce in all main areas of service development of the Division, as well as the suitable delegation of medical responsibilities to colleagues. Some of the roles will have remits across the localities (i.e. work streams of service development, audits, research and teaching and training) and will link with the other medical Clinical Leads within East Sussex Division, professional leads across Sussex and other key members of the Division leadership team. Together with the Divisional leadership team and Chief Medical Officer, the Lead Psychiatrist will support and agree the respective responsibility for ensuring that all non-training grade medical staff in the Division receive appropriate clinical supervision. This will include contributing to annual team and individual job planning of consultants; as well as their professional appraisals; ensuring sufficient psychiatric cover and good medical practice across the service. Further remits include optimising the use of Psychiatry resources and leading on processes of changes to medical staffing in the locality including locums.

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