Employer Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Clock View Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Plus 10% R&R payment (non contractual) and 1% on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/03/2025 23:59
Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Dee Ward)
Consultant
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes 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. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the inpatient team at Clock View Hospital, Liverpool. The post is a newly created position due to the reconfiguration of the medical model at Clock View Hospital. The post will be one of four general adult inpatient Consultants at Clock View Hospital. The post holder will be responsible for 17 patients on Dee ward, which is a female acute ward.
Clock View Hospital is a purpose-built adult mental health facility based in Walton, Liverpool, opened in 2015. There are 3 acute adult wards namely: Alt (mixed ward), Dee (female), and Morris (male). Clock View also houses Newton ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and an old age ward, Irwell.
The post currently attracts a 10% R&R payment which will be reviewed next year.
Main duties of the job
1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews, and multi-professional meetings.
5. Be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. Provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
7. Carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes.
8. Provide medical leadership to the team.
9. Liaise with carers.
10. Maintain effective communication with other services.
11. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
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 are 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. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support ward-based staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews, and multi-professional meetings.
5. Be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. Provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
7. Carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes.
8. Provide medical leadership to the inpatient team.
9. Liaise with families / carers.
10. Liaise with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.
11. Maintain effective communication with other services, including in-patient and community mental health teams, and primary care.
12. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
13. Be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
14. Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
15. Participate in the training of other disciplines.
16. Provide educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
17. Take part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
18. Lead and manage a team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
* 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.
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
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 and wide medical knowledge.
* Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
* Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
* Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
* Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
* Ability to work and lead a team.
* Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
* Participated in research or service evaluation.
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
* Participated in continuous professional development.
* Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
* Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
* Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
* Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes.
* Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.
Additional Information
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
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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