Consultant Psychiatrist Southwark Team for Early Psychosis (STEP)
The STEP team is a stand\- alone community service offering support and management of First Episode Psychosis (FEP) to 18\-65 year olds for up to 3 years following first episode. You will work as part of a comprehensive MDT including another consultant (0\.4\), an associate specialist (LTFT), ST (part time as split post with primary care mental health team), advance practitioner, mental health practitioners, psychologists, occupational therapists and admin support. STEP offers early treatment by means of a range of pharmacological, psychological and social interventions to adults who have made a transition to psychosis and are in the early stages of their illnesses. Care is provided according to PIG guidelines for FEP, using the model of care coordination to ensure that patients have access to the best treatment options available. Particular areas of focus are improving social and occupational outcomes in psychosis through vocational work, befriending, and support groups; and working with families to offer psychoeducation, carer support and family interventions.
The main duties of this post include providing psychiatry consultant leadership to the Southwark service for Treatment of Early Psychosis) team (STEP). Please see job description for more details.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) provides a range of mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services for people living in four local Boroughs in South London, Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as providing a range of national specialist services.
Main duties:
- To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the team leader and other consultant
- To take consultant responsibility for patients, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
- To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness
- To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence\-based treatments
- To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
- Provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover including under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Southwark during working hours
- To keep up\-to\-date with all developments in research and treatment around early intervention
- To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations.
- To undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed
- To work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care
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