Consultant Psychiatrist – Centralised Health Based Place of Safety

The CHBPoS Consultant will provide consultant cover and clinical leadership to the CHBPoS, working alongside clinical and management colleagues. The post holder is a key link between operational and clinical roles within KMMH, providing leadership to external interfaces related to patient flow.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant cover for patients in the CHBPoS.
• Provide clinical supervision to resident doctors covering the CHBPoS during daytime.
• Advise on policies related to the provision of care by the place of safety service in KMMH.
• Monitor Section 136 activity in relation to demand in the new CHBPoS and consider necessary resources.
• Advise on how resources for the CHBPoS should be deployed to maximize quality, patient experience, and flow across care group areas.
• Support the Acute Clinical Director in cost-improvement planning and quality assessing the impact of cost-improvement schemes.
• Proactively ensure learning from serious incidents, near-misses and complaints is considered in the running of the CHBPoS.
• Promote a culture valuing safety, effectiveness and automatic patient/carer engagement, including openness and responsibilities under duty of candour.

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