Consultant Psychiatrist

Site: Northwood House

Town: Kirkby

Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 plus 10% R&R (non contractual) & 1% on call

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 15/10/:59

Job overview Applications are invited for a 0.6 WTE (6PAs) Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Kirkby 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. This role offers opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.

If successful in your application for this post (6 PAs), you will join a dynamic and dedicated multi-disciplinary team delivering high-quality assessment and treatment for adults with psychosis and other severe mental illnesses referred from linked general practices within the Kirkby 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 teamwork with primary care and adult inpatient acute care colleagues.

Main duties of the job

1. Consultant Psychiatrist responsibility for Kirkby CMHT
2. Actively involved in the leadership, management, and decision making
3. Utilise a flexible approach to the delivery of clinical care
4. Supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
5. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
6. Support MDT staff to manage psychiatric emergencies
7. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary reviews, CPA reviews, and multi-professional team meetings
8. Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
9. Foster relationships between staff within each organisation
10. Act as team responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
11. Carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and as required participate in Trust's risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM)
12. 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.
13. Liaison with families, carers, other stakeholders, and interested parties
14. The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with IAPT services and other community mental health teams and primary care.

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 (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. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities In line with New Ways of Working, the post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory, and supportive role to the multi-disciplinary team.

Take an active part in the clinical work of the team.

The post holder will be expected to be part of the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team. This forms part of a wider acute care system provided by the Trust and this service performs a crucial coordinating function to ensure that service users experience a smooth journey through the most appropriate care pathway.

Work as a medical expert and as responsible clinician for patients subject to the Mental Health Act 2007 which includes patients on Community Treatment Orders (CTOs).

Manage a caseload of approximately 70-80 complex service users subject to the Care Program Approach (CPA), working alongside care coordinators from the Community Mental Health Team.

The post holder is also expected to tackle the medico-legal and ethical dilemmas while adhering to legal safeguards. MHA assessments form an important part of the clinical commitments and have to be done as an emergency. There is a Rota for that in the team which includes fellow Consultant, ST doctor, and Specialty doctor. The post holder will have junior doctor support and will be expected to provide clinical supervision to any first or second on-call doctors when they contact for any advice or support.

The post holder will contribute to clinical and medical leadership within the Recovery Team taking a lead role in the development and provision of a safe, effective, evidenced-based, quality service. The post holder will liaise closely with General Practitioners (GPs) and with other services, teams, and agencies within the Borough and within the Trust to support effective, collaborative, inter-agency working.

Administration time is allocated in the job plan.

There is a specialty doctor currently in post to support the postholder. The Post Holder will be supported to develop Educational and Clinical Supervisor Responsibilities for junior trainees.

Please see job description for full details of role and responsibilities.

Person specification Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
• Additional clinical qualifications.
• 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
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

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 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
• Ability to work constructively in and to lead a multidisciplinary team
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to the post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflected on the purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement; awards, prizes, presentations, and publications
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes for patients

We celebrate diversity and promote 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 also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, 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. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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 . click apply for full job details