# Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - CIMHS **Company**: East London NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: London **Salary**: £113565.00 to £150569.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1202?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_c9cdeddc-fc0 ## Description This is an opportunity to join a well-established general adult community mental health team in Newham. The Community Integrated Mental Health Service (CIMHS) is a multi-disciplinary primary care facing service providing both brief and longer-term care to service users with complex mental health needs. **Main duties of the job** - Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients - Deliver comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients' capabilities, strengths and resilience - Conduct mental state examinations - Make clinical diagnoses - Initiate and review pharmacological treatments - Lead multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and management of individual's risk - Conduct physical health assessments - Make referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services) - Liaise with GP, community and forensic services - Review clinical progress and care plans - Assess readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning - Develop safeguarding planning processes - Consult and liaise with families and carers - Liaise with the criminal justice system, police, Courts and probation when required for the care and management of patients **About us** Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. **Job responsibilities** The job responsibilities are as follows: - Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and medical management of patients - Deliver comprehensive psychiatric assessments, with development of care plans, taking into account patients' capabilities, strengths and resilience - Conduct mental state examinations - Make clinical diagnoses - Initiate and review pharmacological treatments - Lead multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and management of individual's risk - Conduct physical health assessments - Make referrals to other services (medical referrals, diagnostic tests, forensic services) - Liaise with GP, community and forensic services - Review clinical progress and care plans - Assess readiness for transfer to less restrictive setting and discharge planning - Develop safeguarding planning processes - Consult and liaise with families and carers - Liaise with the criminal justice system, police, Courts and probation when required for the care and management of patients **Person Specification** **Qualifications** - Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment - Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months (older adult or dual older adult/adult) - Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment - MRCPsych or equivalent - Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment **Skills/Abilities** - Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team - Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge - Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty - Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery **Knowledge** - Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult and older adult mental health service - An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation - Understanding of social care structures relevant to older adults - Excellent knowledge of mental health and capacity law, in particular application of the MCA 2005 **Clinical experience** - Excellent experience of operation of older adult mental health service - Assessment and treatment of a wide range of mental health and psychological disorders with evidence-based interventions - Assessment of cognitive impairment and diagnosis of dementia and delirium ## Skills ### Required - comprehensive psychiatric assessments - mental state examination - clinical diagnosis - pharmacological treatments - multi-disciplinary team work ### Nice to have - formal leadership/management training - wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9363-26-1202?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)