Consultant Psychiatrist - Old Age (Inpatients)
Consultant
Main area: Old Age
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent (10% R&R plus on-call)
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 350-MED5034741-G
Site: Hartley Hospital
Town: Southport
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 per annum, plus 10% R&R and on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/09/2024 23:59
Job overview
As a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist working for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care. You will lead the inpatient multi-disciplinary team at Dunes ward, Hartley Hospital, providing clinical care to older adults who require specialist inpatient care. You will work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines to deliver holistic care by completing assessments of new admissions and managing their treatment, ensuring safe discharges back to the community.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for completing assessments and formulating treatment plans for service users admitted to Dunes ward. Dunes ward is a 20-bedded primarily functional older adult complex care ward at Hartley Hospital. As a substantive Old Age Psychiatry Consultant, you will work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team. You will be the Responsible Clinician for patients admitted to Dunes ward, managing patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act, which requires a sound knowledge of Mental Health Act law. This includes completing relevant mental health act documentation and capacity assessments as required.
The post holder will lead the multidisciplinary team at Dunes ward in an enthusiastic, supportive, and approachable manner to foster positive working relationships and staff morale. You will complete ward rounds throughout the week and provide clear communication and documentation regarding assessment outcomes and management plans. You will also provide leadership and training to trainee doctors and medical students placed on Dunes ward, taking an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the service.
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, as well as 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
Regular reviews of inpatients to monitor the response to treatments will be required. The post holder will operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, including Health staff and Social Services staff. You will be expected to liaise closely with Social Services to ensure safe and timely discharge planning of inpatients and communicate promptly to primary care services by providing discharge summaries.
At times, patients under General Adult teams in the community may be admitted to Dunes ward if this is deemed the most appropriate place for them due to bed availability in the Trust. The post holder will provide inpatient care through assessment and treatment as required while such patients await transfer to more suitable inpatient units, if needed.
The post holder will be responsible for the overall assessment, management, and safe discharge planning of inpatients on Dunes ward, working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team including Social Services, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Primary Care.
The team composition is as follows:
- RMN Band 5 - 7.7 WTE
- HCAs Band 3 - 17.99 WTE
- 2 x Band 4 Nursing Assistants
- 1 x Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist
- 1 x Psychiatry Higher Trainee Doctor
- 1-2 x Foundation/GP Trainee/Core Trainee Doctors
- 1 x Ward Manager
- 2 x Deputy Managers
- 1 x Occupational Therapist
- 1 x Physiotherapist
- Several Part-Time Occupational Assistants
Please see job description for further details.
Person specification
Registration
- Full registration with General Medical Council
- Inclusion on or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council or within 6 months of CCST/CCT or equivalent in Old Age Psychiatry at the date of interview
- Section 12 (2) Approval + Approved Clinician Status or demonstrated ability to gain approval
- In good standing with GMC concerning warnings and conditions on practice
Transport
- Holds a valid UK driving licence and will use own car for work-related travel OR provides evidence of proposed alternative
Qualification and Training
- MbChb, MBBS or equivalent
- Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent, 3 years higher professional training in Old Age Psychiatry
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
- Additional Qualifications
- Undertaken ‘Train the Trainer’ and ‘Equality and Diversity’ Training
Clinical Skills, Knowledge, and Experience
- Excellent clinical knowledge in specialty
- 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
- Experience in working previously in similar roles at a relevant level
- Training or experience as a DoLs assessor
- Experience in management and service development
- Knowledge and use of IT systems
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Able to plan and deliver teaching and training relevant to the post
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 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 and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interviews.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity from showing on the DBS Certificate unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details, in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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