Job overview

An innovative Foundation Trust, we work to protect and improve the county’s mental health.  We provide Mental Health services to adults of working age, older people, children & adolescents and people with learning disabilities as well as specialist substance misuse services. 

Gloucestershire is a forward-looking county which can offer excellent career opportunities and a superb quality of life. 

We now have vacancies for an 8PA CONSULTANT IN OLD AGE PSYCHIATRY in the community within the Forest of Dean locality. It is an established post, which has arisen following retirement of the previous post holder.

This post is based within the local multidisciplinary team with full office and secretarial support, currently located at Collier’s Court in Cinderford.

It is expected the consultant will play a major role in the clinical leadership of services, to ensure a high quality of care is provided to Gloucestershire service users.  As part of this role, they would be expected to work in partnership with the team managers responsible for these services.  There will be an expectation to take part in general management issues that will be shared amongst all their consultant colleagues. 

Main duties of the job

The consultant will provide senior psychiatric medical advice, support, consultancy and clinical leadership to the Later Life Mental health Team and Memory Assessment services.

• The consultant will be expected to attend MHA assessments for the Community patients in your catchment area during normal working hours.
• The consultant will be expected to provide clinical leadership to the team. 
• Outpatient clinics will be held at a Colliers Court
• To carry a community case load consisting of patients for whom you will either be the lead healthcare professional (HCP) and have responsibility for managing all needs, or allocated medic where you will be responsible for medical management alone.  
• To carry out outpatient clinics and home visits consisting of routine and urgent new patient assessments and review/follow up appointments for service users with severe/enduring mental illness, complex needs, organic disorders and/or personality disorder. 
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team and participate in appropriate multi-disciplinary team meetings such as Community Team Meetings and CPA reviews.
• To maintain electronic health records in accordance with Trust policies.
• To actively participate in clinical governance activities.

Working for our organisation

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust. 

The annual NHS Staff Survey  gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust.  For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%).   It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users; 
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work; 
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative     

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.