SOUTH WESTERN DEANERY - South West Peninsula Deanery

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Urgent and Inpatient Psychiatry
Oak Ward, Torbay Hospital
Dr Kate Lovett
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
JOB DESCRIPTION
This post provides excellent core training in both inpatient and community psychiatry through an integrated
Urgent and Inpatient service. Trainees will have the opportunity to gain experience in administration of the
mental health act, modern inpatient care, focussing on effective gate-keeping of beds and facilitation of early
discharge. In addition 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.
Oak ward is one of three acute in-patient units for younger adults serving South and West Devon. There are 11
acute beds on the ward. Patients may be admitted to the ward if home treatment is no longer appropriate or
inpatient treatment will provide a more appropriate environment and support.
There are usually approximately 2 new admissions per week to the ward. 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.
The Urgent and Inpatient team relate to 3 community consultants and their teams and it is proposed that the
trainee would work with all patients referred from one team throughout their placement to allow development of
good working relationships with the Recovery team, consultant and local GPs.
In addition to support from the consultant the service is supported by an associate specialist 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 almost 10 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 3 ½ 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.
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