Consultant Psychiatrist - Windsor CMHT
Posted 3 days 23 hours ago by NHS
Applications are invited for 1 full-time (10PAs + 10% R&R) Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Windsor Community Mental Health Team.
At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.
The Trust is focused on driving change and innovation by supporting and enhancing the leadership role of our senior clinicians and this role would offer opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.
If successful in your application for this replacement full-time post (10 PAs), you will join a dynamic and dedicated multi-disciplinary team delivering high quality assessment and treatment of adults with psychosis and other severe mental illnesses referred from linked general practices from the Windsor CMHT coverage.
This is an exciting time to be joining adult mental health services with the implementation of a new clinical model that is already yielding improvements in care throughout the pathway, supported by more effective team working with primary care and adult inpatient acute care colleagues.
Main duties of the job- Be actively involved in the leadership, management and decision making within the Community Mental Health Team.
- Supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
- Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
- Conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, CPA reviews and multiprofessional team meetings.
- Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
- Ensure that management plans are clearly displayed in the medical records and undertake administrative duties associated with the care of the patient.
- Foster relationships between staff within each organisation, and with the local Clinical Commissioning Groups.
- Act as team responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 and carry out duties in accordance to the code of practice.
- Carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust's risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM).
- Maintain a high level of effective communication and work flexibly and cooperatively with other parts of the service including; inpatient units, other community mental health teams, specialist services and primary care.
- Liaison with families, carers, other stakeholders and interested parties.
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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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.
Job responsibilities- Provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multi-disciplinary team.
- Take an active part in the clinical work of the team; the majority of clinical work is clinic-based, but service users may also be seen at home, as required.
- Clinical work includes report writing. The post holder will also be supported in developing a special interest in a clinical area, which meets the Trust objectives.
- Participate in the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team.
- Work as a medical expert and as responsible clinician for patients subject to the Mental Health Act 2007.
- Tackle the medico-legal and ethical dilemmas while adhering to legal safeguards.
- Participate in clinical governance and quality assurance processes.
- Contribute to clinical and medical leadership within the Recovery Team.
- Administration time is allocated in the job plan.
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Additional clinical qualifications.
- Excellent knowledge in specialty.
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus 10% recruitment & retention premia (non contractual).