Job overview

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the East Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) formerly known as East Assessment and Treatment Service (ATS) in Brighton & Hove. You will be joining a mutually supportive, friendly and enthusiastic team with a real passion for what we do. 

Brighton and Hove Community services are split into three main teams, East and West and Central NMHT, each NMHT has a geographical patch determined by alignment to a small number of GP surgeries, this helps facilitate good liaison with our Primary Care colleagues. This post will be in Ardingly Court Cluster. We are also fortunate to have a large array of third sector organisations in Brighton and Hove whom we have developed strong links with. 

We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). Every cluster has a trainee, including F2, GP trainees, core or higher trainees. We also provide training for medical students and Physician Associate students from BSMS.

Main duties of the job

We are a large multi-disciplinary community mental health team, which provides specialist assessments and treatment to patients presenting with a range of complex and unstable mental health and social needs. 

As a consultant psychiatrist in our team, your main duties will be to:

·       Provide specialist medical /psychiatric assessment and evidence-based treatment to patients referred to the service.

·       Provide clinical supervision to the HST and informal advice and supervision to non-medical members of the team

·       Fulfil the duties of Responsible Clinician for patient's subject to Community Treatment Orders including attendance at Mangers Hearings and Tribunals.

·       Mental Health Act assessments for patients on the team caseload

·       Liaison with inpatient Responsible Clinicians

·       Liaison with the forensic team/drug and alcohol services and risk panel as required

Working for our organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire. 

Brighton & Hove is a unique, vibrant and exciting place to live and work, offering a lively city life with the opportunity to get away from it all to the South Downs National park just on the doorstep. The city offers excellent access to London and is in close proximity to Gatwick Airport. Brighton is proud to be a diverse and inclusive city, and this is reflected in the staff mix employed by SPFT, and by the ethos of the Trust. 

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.