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. As a leader of the outpatient multi-disciplinary team at Hartley Hospital, you will work in a state of the art mental health facility, providing clinical care to older adults who require specialist outpatient care. You will work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines in order to deliver holistic care by completing assessments of new referrals to the team, making formulations and managing their treatment in order to optimise 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, ensuring equity in terms of number of referrals. The post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team’s work, take an active part in the clinical work of the team, and lead the development of the service. They will be expected to provide leadership to the Team whose role is to provide assessment, management, and support to people who may need contact with Older Adults Mental Health services. Practitioners within the team will support access to services in a timely manner, as well as ensure arrangements are in place to enhance smooth pathways between primary care and secondary services.
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 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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the overall management of patients under their caseload defined by groupings of General Practice surgeries in the local area. The team composition includes 2 x FTE Consultant Psychiatrists, 1 x Staff Grade Doctor, 1 x Band 7 team manager, and various nursing and support staff roles.
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 date of interview
- Section 12 (2) Approval which is integral to Approved Clinician Status or demonstrated ability to gain approval
- 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
- 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.
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 who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
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