Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield/Norris Green CMHT

Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield/Norris Green CMHT Consultant

Main area: Community Psychiatry

Grade: Consultant

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref: 350-MED-N

Site: Norris Green Hub

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and 1% on call

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 15/12/:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities. We are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination while advancing equality of opportunity in service provision and creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Norris Green CMHT based at Falklands Approach, L11. The vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of the previous substantive post holder. This post is one of three CMHT general adult consultant psychiatrist posts within Norris Green hub.

Norris Green Hub serves a catchment area of around 120,000, covering the Mid to North areas of Liverpool for adults of working age. The post encompasses the Anfield catchment areas, which is a demographically mixed area with some social deprivation and drug and alcohol-related difficulties in an urban environment.

The post holder will carry no responsibility for inpatients.

The staff at Norris Green Hub are organised in three distinct CMHTs. This CMHT consists of:

• 1 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultant psychiatrist (this post)
• 1 WTE higher/core Psychiatric Trainee
• 5 WTE dedicated medical secretaries, Band 4, and a full-time Band 3 shared with the other two teams
• 1 Band 7 team leader
• 5 WTE community psychiatric nurses (Band 6 and Band 5)
• 7 WTE social workers shared between the three teams
• 1 WTE senior occupational therapist, Band 6 shared between the three teams
• 4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the three teams
• Input from the Hub Lithium Clinic and Health and Wellbeing Clinic

Main duties of the job

• Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E, and the access team
• Conducting CPA reviews
• Supervising new to service assessments as required
• Undertaking very complex/high-risk new to service assessments
• Managing a caseload of approximately 55 more complex service users subject to the Care Program Approach (CPA)

Person specification Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment

Transport

• Holds and will use a valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.