Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - Kingston Hospital

The Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry service has been established over a number of years, and since 2015 has provided a 24/7 service. The Older Adult Psychiatry specialists are integrated with the clinicians providing services to working age adults. This model ensures that colleagues in the general hospital have a single point of referral, and that expertise in old age psychiatry and general adult psychiatry are shared within the team. For the person appointed to this Consultant post, it will be particularly important to be willing to work across the whole over-18 age spectrum at times, while taking the clinical lead with patients who are over 65 (the group targeted by the older adults practitioners). The post-holder will provide section 12 cover for the acute hospital between 9am and 5pm in the general hospital. This is shared with the other Consultant and the Associate Specialist in the team. The post-holder would lead on providing S.12 cover for the ED and AAU working age patient presentations, unless the consultants are providing cross- cover for each other. The Older Adults Liaison Consultant would lead on providing S.12 cover for that age group presentations in the acute hospital. The three senior clinicians in the team provide joint teaching to medical students, junior doctors and nurses. This timetable may be changed in consultation with the Clinical Director in accordance with the Job Plan and Trust Clinical Governance Procedures. Please see attached JDPS for more details