About the role
Salary: £113565.00 to £150569.00
Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist based at Kent Prisons In-Reach Teams. The post holder will provide Consultant leadership for the In-Reach teams at HMP Rochester with 4PAs DCC, HMP Cookham Wood 2PAs DCC and HMP Maidstone 2PAs DCC.
The post includes an interesting and varied range of clinical responsibilities for prisoners with a wide range of clinical conditions, including acute and chronic mental illness, personality disorder and ADHD. The in-reach team holds a caseload and within this caseload, number of patients would be subject to CPA management. Patients are generally seen within the outpatient clinics at each site, although at times patients may need to be seen on the wing in an emergency. All referrals are triaged by the In-Reach Team. At HMP Rochester the psychiatrist completes a segregation round once a week.. Whilst there is flexibility in allocation of individual responsibilities, the overarching model is one of integrated working across the mental health multidisciplinary teams.
Clinical work HMP Rochester, HMP Cookham Wood and HMP Maidstone