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Applications are invited from an experienced individual for this full time post in General Adult Psychiatry. The post will be community based working with two Consultants at the Eastvale Resource Centre, for the Rutherglen/Cambuslang area of South Lanarkshire (general adult population of 30,169). Inpatient care is covered by a less than full time (8 sessions) consultant based at Leverndale Hospital. There is a well resourced and established Community Mental Health Team at the Eastvale Resource Centre. The successful applicant will be expected to work closely with colleagues to provide a full range of services to the community team.
Although the Community Mental Health Team is part of NHS Lanarkshire, medical staff at Eastvale are currently employed by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, and patients are admitted to beds at in . Staff governance for the medical staff at Eastvale is currently derived from the Mental Health Services in Glasgow. There is a shared protocol for the respective clinical governance structures at Eastvale/Leverndale between NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Lanarkshire. Since 2009 the Community Mental Health Team has been provided from Lanarkshire with the inpatient provision from , as part of Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board. The Consultant appointment is to NHSGG&C. There is an intention in the future that inpatient provision will transfer to Lanarkshire Health Board. It is planned that in 2020 the community based medical staff will move to employment under NHS Lanarkshire, resulting in more closely aligned governance within the multidisciplinary team. The consultant post is to Greater Glasgow and Clyde and therefore medical staff retain the right to choose to remain within a substantive post in Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
NHS Lanarkshire has 2 Health and Social Care Partnerships one in the North and one in the South. NHS Lanarkshire, our Local Authority Partners in North and South Lanarkshire Councils, our third sector partners and the people of Lanarkshire recognise the importance of a system of health and social care that is robust, effective and efficient and which reliably ensures a high quality of support and care which is the right of the people of Lanarkshire.
Further details on the Integration of Adult Health and Social Care are available at: www.scotland.gov.uk/publications/2012/07/5082/0