Community Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 114,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in the North West is seeking a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist to lead the older adults outpatient MDT at Hartley Hospital. You will assess new referrals, formulate treatment plans and provide expert advice to primary and secondary care, delivering high quality, equitable care to service users.

The role requires leadership, collaboration with a wide range of disciplines and a commitment to developing care pathways that meet the needs of older adults with organic

Qualifications

• Senior medical role requiring Consultant level in Old Age Psychiatry.
• Ability to lead an MDT and coordinate care for older adults.
• Experience in cognitive assessment and management of functional disorders.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to the older adults outpatient MDT.
• Assess new referrals and develop treatment formulations.
• Lead development and improvement of the service and pathways between primary and secondary care.
• Offer expert advice and consultation to GP, primary care and colleagues in a timely manner.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Clinical assessment

Formulations

Consultative approach

Job description

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 older adults outpatient multi-disciplinary team at Hartley Hospital, you will work in a modern mental health facility for older persons, providing clinical care to service users who have been referred for specialist cognitive assessment as an outpatient and for assessment and management of functional mental disorders. 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 and these are allocated to ensure equity in terms of number of referrals. In line with New Ways of Working, the post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team's work.

They will take an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the service. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership to the Team whose role is to provide assessment, management and support to older adults with organic and functional mental disorders. 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.

The post holder will be enabled to work in a consultative manner, being accessible to team members, GP and primary care staff, patients and carers, for the provision of expert advice and interventions in a timely manner. The post holder will operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, which including Health staff and Social services staff. The post holder will be expected to be part of the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team.

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.

£113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum, plus 7.5% R&R (non contractual) and 1% on call