SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery

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