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 as a result of the previous substantive post holder retiring. 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, which is a demographically mixed area overall, with some areas of social deprivation and drug and alcohol-related difficulties.
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 Wellbeing 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 both 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Person specification
Qualifications
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice 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
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
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.
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