| Individual Placement Description | |
|---|---|
| Placement | Liaison Psychiatry |
| Year | F2 |
| Region | West |
| Hospital(s) | Glasgow Royal Infirmary |
| Main Duties of Placement | Daily departmental MDT meetings for new referrals Assessing inpatients within the Glasgow Royal Infirmary referred to liaison psychiatry. This will include deliberate self-harm reviews and suicidal patients, delirious and functional patients, and those with primary psychiatric presentations who have been admitted for further assessment or co-morbidity. This will take place within the acute and admission wards and in specialist wards such as the plastics and burns units, and ICU. We also provide input to the maternity unit on site. Liaison between specialities within the hospital and community primary and secondary care teams and ensuring robust management/follow up and treatment plans on discharge or transfer to the GRI. Urgent psychiatric reviews within GRI emergency department. Formal weekly supervision will also take place with the allocated consultant. |
| Typical Work Pattern | Monday to Friday 9am-5pm. You will also be part of the OOH resident on call rota for the local psychiatric admission unit at Stobhill Mental Health Campus. The on call rota will take the form of Two consecutive 12 hour long days during weekdays with the rest of the week being 9-5pm, Three 12 hours consecutive long weekend days
On call periods will also be supported by advanced nurse practitioners on site during daytime periods, and a registrar 2nd on call and consultant 3rd on call for OOH shifts. |
| Learning Opportunities | There will be a local multi-day induction provided for all those commencing within the West of Scotland, and observed assessments with liaison staff. This will included core and higher psychiatric trainees, consultant psychiatrists and psychologists and liaison nursing staff. Independent assessment with consultant supervision following assessment will then take place. There will be fortnightly board wide liaison teaching for 1 hour, and teaching weekly for a half day every second Thursday. There will be opportunities for bed side medical student teaching, and to assist with formal undergraduate teaching at the University of Glasgow for MBChB students. |
| Teaching | Access to foundation programme scheduled teaching. On the job teaching from a supportive, experienced, and enthusiastic liaison team. |
| Unique Selling Points | Opportunities to attend specialist taster sessions within psychiatry can also be supported (in addition to FY2 taster weeks) e.g interest in neurology can be supported through the Epilepsy centre or links with neurosurgical teams, paediatrics and child and adolescent mental health, older people psychiatry, perinatal, forensic psychiatry. This post supports 2 hours per week self-development time. |
| It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change. | |
