Community Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist
Consultant
Main area: Old Age
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week (In addition the post attracts a 10% R&R plus on-call payment)
Job ref: 350-MED5276060-D
Site: Hartley Hospital
Town: Southport
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and 1% on-call supplement
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 15/09/2024 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 outpatient multi-disciplinary team at Hartley Hospital, providing clinical care to older adults who require specialist outpatient care. You will work closely with various clinical and professional disciplines to deliver holistic care by completing assessments of new referrals, making formulations, and managing treatment to optimize the quality of life of the service users under your caseload.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be the Responsible Clinician for patients in their caseload within the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team.
There are allocated GP surgeries for each caseload within the service to ensure equity in terms of referrals. In line with New Ways of Working, the post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory, and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team’s work.
The post holder will take an active part in the clinical work of the team and lead the development of the service. They will provide leadership to the team, which provides assessment, management, and support to people needing contact with Older Adults Mental Health services. Practitioners within the team will support timely access to services and ensure arrangements enhance smooth pathways between primary care and secondary services.
The post holder will work consultatively, being accessible to team members, GP and primary care staff, patients, and carers for expert advice and interventions. They will operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, including Health and Social Services staff. The post holder will be part of the allocation procedure within the team and will be responsive to the team's needs.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people across our region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient care. 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 manage patients under their caseload defined by groupings of General Practice surgeries in the local area. Hartley Hospital covers 22 General Practice surgeries, each making approximately 38 referrals per year to the Older Adult Services.
Currently, there are 1824 open referrals to the team and 613 to the advertised post’s MDT, with an average population covered by each practice being 7,254 and an average of 2,984 patients over the age of 65 registered at each practice.
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 which is integral to Approved Clinician Status
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Transport
- Holds valid UK driving licence and will use own car for work-related travel OR provides evidence of proposed alternative
Qualifications and Training
- MbChb, MBBS or equivalent
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent, 3 years higher professional training in Old Age Psychiatry
- Undertaken ‘Train the Trainer’ and ‘Equality and Diversity’ Training
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Excellent clinical knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- Experience in similar roles at a relevant level
- Training or worked as a DoLs assessor
- Experience in management and service development
- Knowledge and use of IT systems
Academic Skills and 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
- Able to plan and deliver teaching and training relevant to this post
- Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change
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 and meet the minimum criteria for the role in the person specification.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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