Consultant Psychiatrist - Walton CMHT

Site: Norris Green Hub, Town: Liverpool

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

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 01/03/: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 and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. We welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

Job Overview

The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Walton CMHT based at Norris Green Hub. The vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of the previous substantive post holder. This position 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 current post encompasses the Walton catchment areas, which include some areas of social deprivation and drug and alcohol-related difficulties.

The post holder will carry no responsibility for inpatients.

Main Duties of the Job

1. Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E, and the access team.
2. Conducting clinical reviews.
3. Supervising new service assessments as required.
4. Undertaking very complex/high-risk new service assessments.
5. Managing team caseload.

Working for Our Organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities Appraisal and Job Planning

Trust commitment to implementation of annual consultant appraisal, outlined in the NHS Executive Advance Letters (MD) 6/00 and (MD) 5/01.

Teaching and Training

Teaching commitments of post and support in place to achieve these.

Research

Synopsis of R&D department; trust research strategy, link with clinical research networks and university as applicable.

Mental Health Act and Responsible Clinician Approval

The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA.

Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance

Expected contribution to clinical governance and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards.

Other Duties

From time to time, it may be necessary for the post holder to carry out such other duties as may be assigned, with agreement, by the Trust.

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.

Transport

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

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in the specialty of General Adult Psychiatry.
• Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.

Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning

• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Ability to work constructively in and to lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Participated in continuous professional development.

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 who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.