Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield/Norris Green CMHTConsultantMain area: Psychiatry
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 350-MED3918063-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: 15/12/2024 23:59
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 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.
Job overviewThe Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Norris Green CMHT based at Falklands Approach, L11. The vacancy has arisen as a result of the previous substantive post holder retiring. This post is one of three CMHT general adult consultant psychiatrist posts (the other 2 are also 1 WTE each) 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 Anfield catchment areas. This is a demographically mixed area overall, but with some areas of social deprivation and also some 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 secretary, Band 4 and a full-time band 3 shared with the other 2 teams.1 Band 7 team leader5 WTE community psychiatric nurses (band 6 and band 5)7 WTE social workers shared between the 3 teams1 WTE senior occupational therapist, Band 6 shared between the 3 teams4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the 3 teamsInput from the Hub Lithium Clinic and Health and Wellbeing Clinic.Main duties of the jobUndertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E and the access team.CPA reviewsSupervise new to service assessments as requiredUndertake very complex/high risk new to service assessmentsManage a caseload of approximately 55 more complex service users subject to the Care Program Approach (CPA) relatively unchanged.Working for our organisationMersey 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 and are 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 cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Person specificationQualificationsMB 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 monthsApproved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointmentApproved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointmentIn good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practiceTransportHolds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternativeCLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCEExcellent knowledge in specialtyExcellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledgeExcellent oral and written communication skills in EnglishAble to manage clinical complexity and uncertaintyMakes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of othersAble to meet duties under MHA and MCAWide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable serviceACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNINGAble to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and trainingAbility to work in and lead teamDemonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvementParticipated in continuous professional developmentParticipated in research or service evaluation.Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmesAble to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this postReflected on purpose of CPD undertakenExperienced in clinical research and/or service evaluationEvidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publicationsHas led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
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