Lead Old Age Psychiatry Consultant — Community-hospital Care
This position involves leading and delivering specialist mental health care for older adults.
* Maintain high-quality patient care through assessment diagnosis treatment planning education support research supervision teaching consultation leadership administration management guidance advice coordination evaluation healthcare multidisciplinary team work practices governance policy making legal compliance auditing accreditation quality improvement safety audit examination professional development duty rostering medical emergencies casualty station emergency admissions outpatients clinics routine appointments home visits hospital consultations hospital stays intensive recovery residential rehab aftercare liaison meeting referrals assessments informal meetings formal decisions collaborative work holistic perspective empathetic listening psychodynamic understanding of complex behaviour trauma resolution bereavement grief adaptation lifespan lifecycle acute sub-acute long-term chronic illness comorbid co-morbidity prevention promotion restoration reduction cessation assistance self-help coping coping mechanisms stress anxiety fear abuse neglect social isolation loneliness ageing aging change chronological biological psychological psychological changes physiological physiological effects frailty risk disease disability premature mortality critical life-threatening high dependency urgent every-day living activity mobility energy limitation capacity deficits persistent long-standing