Consultant Psychiatrist-Islington Memory Service

The multi-disciplinary teams are integrated and work in line with principles of New Ways of Working providing a specialist service for the assessment and management of mental health needs to patients who require older people's services as outlined in the Royal college of Psychiatrists document, "Age discrimination in mental health services: making equality a reality". Referrals are received directly to a central point and are discussed at the weekly multidisciplinary team meeting. Initial assessments are carried out by the medical staff in the team. Patients in the community are assessed normally within clinic setting unless a home visit is indicated due to risk or suitability. The team is staffed as follows: 5 WTE Consultant psychiatrist 5 WTE higher psychiatric trainee 1 WTE GP vocational core trainee 1 Band 7 Team manager 1x Senior Nurse 3 X Band 6 nurses 6 x Clinical psychologist 4 x band 4 Psychology Assistant 5 x Dementia Navigator 2 x Occupational Therapist Administrators x2 The post-holder will be required to have Section 12/AC approval and for this to be kept up to date. They will participate in the Trust daytime section 12 duty rota. This involves setting 4-5 days a year aside to do Mental Health Act assessments. There is a division wide in-house training programme to support staff in developing their clinical skills which we would expect the new post holder to contribute to. There is a two-monthly divisional management meeting for senior divisional leads which the post-holder will be expected to attend and a quarterly divisional SAMH consultant meeting