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