Locum Consultant Psychiatrist - Primary Care Liaison (St Albans)Nhs Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

Main duties of the job The post-holder will provide specialist consultative liaison to Primary Care based staff for advice and guidance (GPs and Primary Care Mental Health Service) for the primary care networks in the North West of Hertfordshire.
Where necessary a service user may be seen by the primary care liaison psychiatrist for one-off mental health diagnostic assessment and/ or medication management.
Psychiatric consultation slots will be made available for GPs and primary care mental health practitioners for clinical discussion.
The psychiatrist and primary care mental health practitioners will agree on the local process to support the booking of slots for primary care consultation with a psychiatrist where required.The GP continues to hold overall clinical governance responsibility for patients seen by primary care mental health staff including psychiatrists in primary care.
When an HPFT prescriber has made prescribing recommendations to primary care, the GP retains clinical responsibility to consider the recommendations for further action in primary care.