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Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield / Norris Green CMHT

North West Boroughs Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustUnited Kingdom

15 days ago

Job type

Full-time

Permanent

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist - Anfield / Norris Green CMHT

Consultant

Main area : Community Psychiatry

Grade : Consultant

Contract : Permanent

Hours : Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref : 350-MED3918063-N

Site : Norris Green Hub

Town : Liverpool

Salary : £105,504 - £139,882 per annum plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and 1% on call

Salary period : Yearly

Closing : 15 / 02 / 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.

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.

The staff at Norris Green Hub are organized in three distinct CMHTs. This CMHT consists of :

1 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultant psychiatrist (this post)
1 WTE higher / core Psychiatric Trainee.
5 WTE dedicated medical secretary, Band 4 and a full time band 3 shared with the other 2 teams.
1 Band 7 team leader
5 WTE community psychiatric nurses (band 6 and band 5)
7 WTE social workers shared between the 3 teams
1 WTE senior occupational therapist, Band 6 shared between the 3 teams
4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the 3 teams
Input from the Hub Lithium Clinic and Health and Well-being Clinic.

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 at present of approximately 55 more complex service users subject to the Care Program Approach (CPA) relatively unchanged.

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 with 3 months of appointment

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

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

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

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