SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery
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TRAINING POST IN:<br />
TRAINER:<br />
EMPLOYING TRUST:<br />
TRAINING BASE:<br />
Community Psychiatry<br />
Dr Kate Lovett<br />
Devon Partnership NHS Trust<br />
Estuary House, Newton Abbot<br />
JOB DESCRIPTION: This post provides excellent training in community psychiatry through an integrated<br />
experience of working with an assertive outreach team, assessment and short intervention team and longer<br />
term recovery team. Trainees will have the opportunity to gain experience in modern community psychiatry<br />
with significant opportunities for involvement in service development. The overall psychiatric service focuses<br />
on effective gate-keeping of inpatient beds and facilitation of early discharge. The post gives the opportunity<br />
to gain competencies in acute psychiatric care in the community by gaining experience in looking at<br />
alternatives to hospital admission and effective home treatment. The focus throughout is on providing<br />
effective treatment and care that makes it safe for patients to recover.<br />
The service covers the Teignbridge area of <strong>South</strong> Devon which serves a population of approx. 130,00 centred<br />
around the towns of Teignmouth, Newton Abbot, Totnes and Dartmouth and surrounding rural villages. This<br />
post serves 6 GP practices in the Newton Abbot area providing good opportunities for primary care liaison.<br />
In addition to support from the consultant the service is supported by a part time staff grade and CT1-3 trainee.<br />
Torbay hospital has a well-established academic and audit programme and it is expected that the ST4-6 trainee<br />
would take an active role within this. There is access to appropriate IT and library facilities within the hospital<br />
site.<br />
Dr Lovett has been a consultant for 12 years. She trained in Manchester, obtaining a Distinction in Psychiatry<br />
at finals. Her MSc thesis was on the role of ovarian steroids in the development of postnatal depression. She<br />
has worked for the last 6 years in Urgent and Inpatient Psychiatry having worked as a sector psychiatrist prior<br />
to reconfiguration. Her involvement in training has been longstanding. She was formerly Lead for<br />
Undergraduate Psychiatry in the Plymouth locality for the <strong>Peninsula</strong> College of Medicine and Dentistry. She<br />
obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Education with Distinction in 2008, the same year in which she<br />
became a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. She has now trained 5 SpRs and has been Training<br />
Programme Director for General and Old Age Psychiatry in the <strong>Peninsula</strong> <strong>Deanery</strong> since 2009. She is elected to<br />
the Central Education, Training and Standards Committee of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is an<br />
examiner for the CASC exams. In January 2012 she was appointed as Head of School of Psychiatry for the<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> <strong>Deanery</strong>.<br />
WEEKLY TIMETABLES<br />
TRAINEE TIMETABLE:<br />
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday<br />
a.m. AOS meeting<br />
ST supervision<br />
Clinic<br />
Recovery Team<br />
Meeting<br />
Research/Special<br />
Interest<br />
Clinic<br />
p.m. Clinic Academic<br />
Teaching<br />
Emergency<br />
Assessments<br />
Research/Special<br />
Interest<br />
Admin<br />
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