Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic psychiatrist to join a highly motivated team of Rehabilitation Consultants to enhance the development of the brain injury services within the South of England Rehabilitation Centre (SERC) at the Western Community Hospital. SERC is scheduled to open in Autumn 2024 as two general rehabilitation wards relocate to join our current specialist rehabilitation provision: Kite ward- is a neuropsychiatric ward for managing patients with brain injury, and Snowdon ward for physical and cognitive neurological rehabilitation. Kite ward has previously had sessional input from consultant psychiatrists within the trust but we have reconfigured the staffing model to create this new full-time Consultant role to support development of services within the new Rehabilitation centre.

The postholder will clinically lead the services on Kite ward alongside a Specialty doctor in Rehabilitation Medicine providing joined-up care encompassing both physical and mental health. Kite's approach enables a holistic patient centred assessment and treatment from a neuropsychiatry perspective. Discharge is closely co-ordinated and planned to enable successful return to the community and only when patients are ready to move on.

In addition, there is close working links with neurology, neurosurgical and neuropsychiatry colleagues at the nearby Wessex Neurological Centre, University Hospitals, Southampton.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will clinically lead the services on Kite ward alongside a Specialty doctor in Rehabilitation Medicine providing joined-up care encompassing both physical and mental health. Kite's approach enables a holistic patient centred assessment and treatment from a neuropsychiatry perspective. Discharge is closely co-ordinated and planned to enable successful return to the community and only when patients are ready to move on.

In addition, there is close working links with neurology, neurosurgical and neuropsychiatry colleagues at the nearby Wessex Neurological Centre, University Hospitals, Southampton.

Further, the postholder will be supported to be responsible and lead on the continued development of this regional neuropsychiatry inpatient service, exploring opportunities for growing the service and gaining RCPsych Neuropsychiatry Quality Network accreditation.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by July 2024.Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on 1st July 2024. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.