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Job summary

Main area
Adult Mental Health
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 6 sessions per week
Job ref
270-MED441
Employer
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Campbell House
Town
Northampton
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
24/06/2025 23:59

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N-Step Consultant

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

A part time opportunity has arisen for an NSTEP Consultant on a part time basis

NSTEP is a countywide service with a north and south team. The teams work as one service to deliver NICE concordant care to service users as per national EIP standards. The service continues to develop and expand with a recent EIP successful funding bid to enable this.

N-STEP accepts all referrals for people aged 14-65 with first episode psychosis or suspected psychosis. This is made with consideration of the individual’s needs and risk.

Main duties of the job

·         Responsible for providing Consultant input to the Early intervention Team (N-STEP team South)

·         Responsible for joint urgent, routine and complex case assessment and management, including new referral assessments of service users within the south N-STEP service, working together in an enthusiastic and experienced Multidisciplinary team.

·         Play a key role with patients on CTO’s and would be the first port of call for potential MHA assessments for the team. The post holder would attend tribunal meetings when patients are on CTO’s. The average number of CTO’s across the service in the last 3 years (2020 & 2021) have been 4 -6 (which equates to 2-4% of the overall EIP caseload).

 

The job description is subject to Royal College of Psychiatry approval. 

 

 

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details regarding this post please read the attached job description or contact the service 

Person specification

Behaviours and Values

Essential criteria
  • • In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
  • • Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
  • • Ability to work independently as well as part of A MDT
  • • Able to form a good working relationship with the peer group
  • • Willingness to undertake training and CPD in areas appropriate to this post
  • • Ability to work under pressure
  • • Willingness to participate in in-house training

Knowledge and Exprience

Essential criteria
  • • MRCPsych or equivalent
  • Full GMC Registration
  • • On Specialist Register/CCT in General Adult Psychiatry
  • • Approval under Section12 of the Mental Health Act and able to act as Responsible Clinician.
  • • Minimum of six years postgraduate experience (including three years as SpR in approved training post) or equivalent
  • • Part of this period may be in a post of equivalent responsibility and training.
Desirable criteria
  • • Additional Postgraduate Qualifications / experience in EIP
  • • Publication of original research or service evaluation/audit projects
  • • Management training

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Excellent written and verbal communication skills Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels.
  • • Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences including courts and tribunals
  • • Ability to motivate and develop junior Medical Staff and other MDT members
  • • To balance individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust as a whole.
  • • An understanding of the political and financial framework within which the Services operate
  • • Ability to work independently as well as part of an MDT.
  • • Ability to work flexibly in a fluid clinical environment

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Das Purkayastha Debasish
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
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