Site Baird House, Liverpool Innovation Park Town Liverpool Salary £105,504 - £139,882 plus 10% recruitment & retention premia (non contractual) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/03/2025 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.
Job overview
Applications are invited for 1 full-time (10PAs + 10% R&R) Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Windsor Community Mental health Team.
At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.
If successful in your application for this replacement full time post (10 PAs), you will join a dynamic and dedicated multi-disciplinary team delivering high quality assessment and treatment of adults with psychosis and other severe mental illnesses referred from linked general practices from the Windsor CMHT coverage.
Main duties of the job
* Be actively involved in the leadership, management and decision making within the Community Mental Health Team.
* Supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
* Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
* Conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, CPA reviews and multiprofessional team meetings.
* Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
* Ensure that management plans are clearly displayed in the medical records and undertake administrative duties associated with the care of the patient.
* Foster relationships between staff within each organisation, and with the local Clinical Commissioning Groups.
* Act as team responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 and carry out duties in accordance to the code of practice.
* Conduct comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM).
* Maintain effective communication and work flexibly with other parts of the service including inpatient units, other community mental health teams, specialist services and primary care.
* Liaison with families / carers other stakeholders and interested parties.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
Transport
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
* 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.
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
* Excellent knowledge in specialty.
* Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
* 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.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs.
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 who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.
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.
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