Job Description

Mental Health and Disability Services within the Western Trust are in the midst of a significant change process. Within the past 10 years there has been a shift to more community focussed care including the development of Crisis Response Home Treatment Services. Alongside this, there has been an increased emphasis on consultant psychiatrists providing a high standard of care in the community, through the Primary Care Liaison and Recovery Teams.

The Western Health and Social Care Trust has the following hospitals - Altnagelvin Area Hospital based in Londonderry, South West Acute (SWAH) based in Enniskillen and Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex (a local hospital) in Omagh. The Trust\'s catchment area covers 4,842 square kilometres. We provide services to a population of approximately 300,000 people, have an expenditure of \xc2\xa3680 million and employ a workforce of almost 12,500 staff.

In the local area, there is a new graduate entry medical school in Londonderry, and the Pathfinder project is reviewing service design and delivery in Fermanagh/South Tyrone. There are already established links with the University of Ulster and cross border links with HSE are nurtured via the Cooperation and Working Together (CAWT) project.

There are excellent schools, cultural and leisure opportunities through the entire trust area; from blue flag beach at Benone, through the historic walled city of Derry, via the Sperrins to the Fermanagh lakes, as well as the benefits of living close to the border and the Wild Atlantic Way.

Transport links and infrastructure continue to improve with development of roads and rail connections. City of Derry airport is now flying to London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Manchester.

Closing date: Friday 22 September 2023 at 3:30pm.

For full criteria, job description and application form for the above please visit Jobs.hscni.net and apply online.

A waiting list may be complied for any further vacancies that may arise within the next twelve months.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Overview of the Trust

The Western Health and Social Care Trust was established on 1 April 2007. The Trust provides health and social care services across the council areas of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council and Limavady, in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council. Services are provided from a number of hospitals and community facilities (130 different facilities across the Trust area), and people\'s own homes across a mix of urban and rural communities. The Western Health and Social Care Trust has an annual budget of approximately \xc2\xa3800m and employs almost 12,500 staff.

The Western Trust has several hospitals located throughout the west of Northern Ireland, these are:

Londonderry Hospitals: Altnagelvin Hospital, Lakeview Hospital, Waterside Hospital, Roe Valley Hospital and Grangewood.

Tyrone Hospitals: Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex and Tyrone and Fermanagh Hospital.

Fermanagh Hospital: the South West Acute Hospital

Geography

The Trust\'s catchment area extends over 4,842km2 and serves a population of approximately 300,000, which represents 16% of the overall population of Northern Ireland. This, alongside high levels of multiple deprivation and related health inequalities in some areas of the Trust\'s geography, creates significant challenges for service delivery for the Trust as a health and social care provider.

Our Services

The Trust provides a range of integrated Health and social care services - acute hospital services, mental health, learning disability and physical disability services, social care and primary and community care services. The majority of services are provided in community-based settings with access to specialist inpatient services available from a number of hospitals.

Acute Services

Altnagelvin Area Hospital is located on the outskirts of Londonderry. It is the main teaching hospital in the North West. It is the largest Acute Hospital outside the Greater Belfast area and has one of the widest range of specialities of any hospital in Northern Ireland. Altnagelvin is also a Cancer Centre and many of its specialties are area-wide services provided across Trusts or cross border.

South West Acute Hospital (SWAH) is a modern, 100% single-room ensuite accommodation facility, which provides a wide range of major acute hospital services to patients from Fermanagh and Tyrone and beyond.

Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex covers a range of key primary, secondary and community healthcare services for the people of Omagh and the surrounding district. The new hospital provides 40 intermediate care beds and includes a range of services such as reablement, palliative care, renal dialysis, a Health and Care Centre and an Urgent Care and Treatment Centre. It also provides advanced diagnostic services, together with 3-day surgery operating theatres and 22 recovery beds.

Our Aim

The Western Trust aims to: \xe2\x80\x9cProvide high quality patient and client focused health and social care services through well trained staff with high morale\xe2\x80\x9d.

The Trust is committed to improvement by having 4 key strategic aims:

• Great Start In Life Live
• Well With Long Term Conditions
• Great Place To Grow Old
• Great Place To Work Our

• We will deliver best options
• People will experience safe, compassionate and high quality care
• Collaboration will be how we work
• People will be proud to work for us
• We will be a learning organisation

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