Site: Norris Green Hub Town, Liverpool
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 per annum, plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/03/2025 23:59
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 join Anfield CMHT based at Norris Green Hub, 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 some drug and alcohol-related difficulties in an urban environment.
The post holder will carry no responsibility for inpatients.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E and the access team.
2. Clinical reviews.
3. Supervise new to service assessments as required.
4. Undertake very complex/high risk new to service assessments.
5. Manage team caseload.
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.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Appraisal and Job Planning
1. Trust commitment to implementation of annual consultant appraisal.
2. Trust process, including linkage to job planning.
3. Trust processes to support appraisal, links to revalidation; named Responsible Officer.
4. Details of any Consultant Induction Programme and mentoring scheme / arrangements.
Teaching and Training
1. Teaching commitments of post, and support in place to achieve these.
2. Trust-wide teaching.
3. Teaching arrangements in locality/team.
4. Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
5. Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance
1. Expected contribution to clinical governance and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards.
2. Participation in clinical audit and other local assurance processes.
3. Participation in service/team evaluation and the planning of future service developments.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Fully registered with the GMC with a license 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.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty of General Adult Psychiatry.
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
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