An opportunity has arisen for an NSTEP Consultant on a full time basis.

NSTEP is a countywide service with a north and south team. The teams work as one service to deliver NICE concordant care to service users as per national EIP standards. The service continues to develop and expand with a recent EIP successful funding bid to enable this.

N-STEP accepts all referrals for people aged 14-65 with first episode psychosis or suspected psychosis. This is made with consideration of the individual’s needs and risk.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing Consultant input to the Early intervention Team (N-STEP team South)
• Responsible for joint urgent, routine and complex case assessment and management, including new referral assessments of service users within the south N-STEP service, working together in an enthusiastic and experienced Multidisciplinary team.
• Play a key role with patients on CTO’s and would be the first port of call for potential MHA assessments for the team. The post holder would attend tribunal meetings when patients are on CTO’s. The average number of CTO’s across the service in the last 3 years (2020 & 2021) have been 4 -6 (which equates to 2-4% of the overall EIP caseload).

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Das Purkayastha Debasish Job title: Clinical Director Email address: debasish.daspurkayastha@nhft.nhs.uk