Site: Northwood House
Town: Kirkby
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 plus 10% R&R (non contractual) & 1% on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/08/2024 23:59
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.
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 from 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 team working with primary care and adult inpatient acute care colleagues.
Main duties of the job
- Consultant Psychiatrist responsibility for Kirkby CMHT
- Actively involved in the leadership, management and decision making
- Utilise a flexible approach to delivery of clinical care
- 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.
- Support MDT staff to manage psychiatric emergencies
- Conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional team meetings
- Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
- Foster relationships between staff within each organisation
- 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 and other stakeholders.
- 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. 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.
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
The post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multi-disciplinary team.
Manage a caseload of approx. 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 will tackle the medico-legal and ethical dilemmas while adhering to legal safeguards. MHA assessments form an important part of the clinical commitments.
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.
Administration time is allocated in the job plan.
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
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Transport
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Excellent knowledge in specialty of General Adult Psychiatry
- 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
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- Ability to work constructively in and to lead a multidisciplinary team
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to 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.
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.
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