# Locum Consultant Psychiatrist Home Treatment Team

**Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: fixed-term
**Salary**: £113,565 to £150,569 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This is an opportunity to join an outstanding Home Treatment team that is high performing, provides highly effective care, and has a wonderful supportive culture. The post is being advertised as a fixed-term for 11 months as the substantive post-holder is moving to another team in the directorate on a fixed-term secondment.

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and medical management of patients, including:

- Comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients' capabilities, strengths, and resilience

- Mental state examination

- Clinical diagnosis

- Initiation and reviews of pharmacological treatments

- Leading multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation, and management of individual's risk

- Physical health assessments

- Referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services)

- Liaison with GP, community, and forensic services

- Reviews of clinical progress and care plans

- Assessment of readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning

- Safeguarding planning processes

- Consultation and liaison with families and carers

- Liaison with the criminal justice system, police, Courts, and probation when required for the care and management of patients.

The salary for this post is £113,565 to £150,569 per annum.

We are looking for someone who is fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment, included on the GMC Specialist Register, and approved under S12 or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.

## Skills

### Required
- GMC registration
- Specialist Register
- S12 approval
- MRCPsych
- clinical skills
- teamwork
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- formal leadership/management training
- qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management

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