Directorate: Adult Mental Health & Disability Services
Location: Western Health and Social Care Trust
Posts available: 2 permanent posts, full-time (40 hpw)
Post 1 - Lakeview Hospital, Londonderry
Post 2 - Tyrone & Fermanagh Hospital, Omagh
Job summary
The WHSCT wishes to appoint a 2 WTE Consultant Psychiatrists to work in the Intellectual Disability Community Teams. The post holders will work within the multidisciplinary team to deliver an integrated care across adult intellectual disability services.
The posts are a result of reconfiguration, following additional investment, to create distinct hospital and community based posts. The posts have met the criteria for additional recruitment and retention premium for those moving to employment in HSCNI.
The post-holders will be working alongside each other and Consultant Colleagues as below:
- Dr Lisa Brady – Consultant Psychiatrist for Adults with Intellectual Disability, In-patients Lakeview Hospital
- 2 WTE Consultant Psychiatrists in the Child and Adolescent Intellectual Disability Service, Women’s and Children’s Directorate
The Trust shares a vision for service development outlined in the Bamford Review’s Equal Lives document and will be reviewing service provision in line with Regional Review of Learning Disability Services in Northern Ireland.
The Trust is committed to the developing the “Future roles of psychiatrists working with people with an intellectual disability” as outlined in the Faculty Report from the Royal College of Psychiatry. The trust is aiming to provide a tiered approach to psychiatric care, 4 based on a stepped care model with collaborative, multidisciplinary care pathways. The post provides an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development of a comprehensive and effective mental health service for adults with an intellectual disability. The post holder will be encouraged to participate fully in clinical leadership of the service, with an expectation that the service will be modelled and bench-marked against best practice.
For complete details view the full job description in the Additional Information section below.
