Job overview

The postholder will provide medical and clinical leadership to the Twickenham Integrated Recovery Hub (IRH) within Adult Mental Health Services for Richmond. The Twickenham IRH (with internal GP alignment) is one of two such teams in the London Borough of Richmond, the other being Richmond IRH. Both IRHs provide treatment and care for those with more complex and enduring needs.  There is a separate team Richmond Single Point of Access which triages GP referrals and carries out assessments. Richmond Primary Care Liaison Service and also accept referrals from GPs and provide mental health interventions. In addition, there are separate community teams for Early Intervention in Psychosis (Richmond and Kingston EIS) and a Complex Emotional Needs Service for people with Personality Disorder (Richmond PDITT). There is also a Trust run Richmond Wellbeing Service comprising of IAPT and wellbeing services for patients with mild/moderate mental health difficulties.

While individual clinicians within the team have responsibility for the clinical care they deliver, the consultant shares with the team manager and other team members responsibility for ensuring the care delivered by the team is safe and of a good standard. This includes participating in systems of audit and clinical governance, working to resolve problems on their own initiative, and where necessary drawing any concerns they have been unable to resolve themselves to the attention of the team manager and others.

Main duties of the job

The post will be managerially/operationally accountable to the Clinical Director for the Community (adult) Service Line and responsible to the Associate Clinical Director for the borough.

The Consultant will have Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act and Approved Clinician status. (or eligibility)

 Clinical Duties of Post Holder

·     Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with, and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their borough or service line.

·     Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team

·     Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.

·     Domiciliary visits as required.

·     Providing cross-cover for the Consultant colleagues where necessary.

·     Management of complex cases

·     Allocation of resources, in collaboration with the team manager, to service users and carers.

·     Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.

·     Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.

Working for our organisation

The Trust has an excellent reputation for developing innovative clinical services including the Recovery College and SUN Project. Our Recovery College has been visited by overseas healthcare commissioners, who have gone on to develop similar services abroad in collaboration with our Trust. The Trust is also proud to have also developed a range of new, progressive, public facing services including Crisis Cafes and a Mental Health Support Line.

The Trust also provides a range of national services, the advice and expertise of which can be easily called upon for the benefit of CMHT patients.

Following a CQC Inspection in 2018 the Trust became one a few Mental Health Trusts to have achieved a “Good” rating.

The Trusts Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy 21-24 strives to achieve the following outcomes by 2024.