Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist MHLT RRP

We're looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist to join the mental health liaison team at Worthing General Hospital. Are you an experienced psychiatrist with an interest in the complex interplay between mental and physical health, and the energy to drive change and develop services? In this role you will provide expert psychiatric assessment, formulation and collaborative care of adults of all ages in the emergency department and general hospital wards.

You will be working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment supported by highly skilled liaison nurses and rotational doctors in the team. The service is busy with increasing complexity of cases, providing intellectual stimulation, and the opportunity for innovation, development and growth of services.

This job attracts a Recruitment and Retention payment of £45,00 (is pro rata for part time employees), in addition to (up to) £8000 relocation allowance. The RRP payment is paid in the following instalments:

• £15,000 payable upon successful recruitment

For further information please contact our Medical HR Team -

As a Consultant Psychiatrist in the team your main duties will be:

• Daily handovers, triaging of referrals and complex case discussion
• Provide specialist medical and psychiatric assessment, collaborative care and treatment planning, and liaison for people aged 18 and above referred to the Mental Health Liaison Team from the Emergency Department and the inpatient wards
• Have expertise in adult mental illness, neuropsychiatric conditions, functional disorders, addictions, the interplay between physical and mental health problems and management of psychiatric emergencies
• Manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership working with other organisations involved in a person's care
• Develop detailed care plans and treatment formulations, following principles of person-centred care and evidence-based medicine
• Section 12 approved and hold Approved Clinician status
• Opportunity to participate in planning and development of local mental health services and to contribute constructively to improving the standards of mental health care offered by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
• Clinical and educational supervision for resident doctors and teaching medical, nursing and paramedic students on placement
• Providing education to colleagues working in the acute hospital
• Clinical and medical leadership within the team and across liaison services across Sussex

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

West Sussex is situated in the southeast of England between the sea and the South Downs with a GP registered population of 876,000. The county offers good access to London and is near Gatwick Airport.

Worthing is a small seaside town in West Sussex, lying approximately 10 miles west of Brighton. Worthing General Hospital is a medium sized 600-bedded hospital situated in the centre of the town. Worthing General Hospital is part of the much larger University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, which includes St Richard's Hospital in Chichester, Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton and the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath.

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.

The successful candidate will work as part of the wider MDT and demonstrate:

• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge;
• A wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable…