Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield/Norris Green CMHT
Consultant
Main area: Psychiatry
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 350-MED3918063-M
Site: Norris Green Hub
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 per annum (plus 10% recruitment & retention premia)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 08/09/2024 23:59
Job overview
The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Norris Green CMHT based at Falklands Approach, L11. The vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of the previous substantive post holder. This post is one of three CMHT general adult consultant psychiatrist posts 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 secretaries, Band 4 and a full-time band 3 shared with the other 2 teams
- 1 Band 7 team leader
- 5 WTE community psychiatric nurses (band 6 and band 5)
- 7 WTE social workers shared between the 3 teams
- 1 WTE senior occupational therapist, Band 6 shared between the 3 teams
- 4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the 3 teams
- Input from the Hub Lithium Clinic and Health and Well-being Clinic
Main duties of the job
- Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E and the access team
- CPA reviews
- Supervise new to service assessments as required
- Undertake very complex/high risk new to service assessments
- Manage a caseload of approximately 55 more complex service users subject to the Care Program Approach (CPA)
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.
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 be expected to:
- Participate in annual appraisal and job planning
- Engage in teaching and training commitments
- Participate in clinical governance and quality assurance
- Contribute to research and development activities
- Comply with the Trust’s policies and procedures
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
- In good standing with GMC
Transport
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity
- Wide range of specialist experience relevant to post
ACADEMIC SKILLS & LIFELONG LEARNING
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working
- Participated in continuous professional development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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