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 (the other 2 are also 1 WTE each) 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.
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, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
Other duties
From time to time it may be necessary for the post holder to carry out such other duties as may be assigned, with agreement, by the Trust.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination.
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