Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

NHS; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry to join their team in providing comprehensive mental health services. This role involves working flexibly across acute sites, providing effective liaison between mental health services and hospital trusts. Candidates must possess strong clinical experience, leadership skills, and a postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry. The organization is committed to quality improvement and offers numerous benefits, including teaching opportunities and excellent wellbeing support. This is a fantastic chance to make a difference in the lives of individuals in need of mental health services.

Benefits

Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships

Access to a lease car

Coaching and mentoring

Excellent wellbeing support

Staff networks and support groups

Teaching opportunities

Bespoke research and innovation department

Qualifications

• GMC registration and inclusion on the specialist register in Mental Health required.
• Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry is essential.

Responsibilities

• Join a dedicated mental health liaison team and provide medical leadership.
• Participate in postgraduate training and undergraduate education.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Team Building Skills

Clinical Experience

Educational Ability

Education

GMC Registration

Postgraduate Qualification in Psychiatry

Eligibility for Approved Clinician Status

Job description

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

This is a new post that has come about as a result of service development in keeping with the Core24 requirement.

As a Consultant in Liaison Psychiatry, the postholder will join a team of Consultants providing comprehensive acute mental health services to Coventry & Warwickshire localities; participate in providing postgraduate training to the Coventry and Warwickshire Junior Doctor Training Scheme and undergraduate education for medical students from Warwick Medical School. You will require leadership and team building skills as well as clinical experience and educational ability.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at George Eliot Hospital (GEH). The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 17. Although the Consultant will be based in Coventry, there will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across acute sites.

Objectives of the service are to provide effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trusts. The team will provide effective liaison between the Mental Health services and emergency departments, acute inpatient wards, and elderly care wards, and provide medical leadership and clinical supervision for the Liaison Team.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services.

CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme.

We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme, and Foundation trainees.

We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.

There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is just a snapshot:

• Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics
• Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
• Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline
• Staff networks and support groups
• Teaching opportunities
• Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis, and autism

Job responsibilities

For further details of the post, please consult the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GMC registration and inclusion on the specialist register in Mental Health or Specialty Trainees within 6 months of completing CCT
• A postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry e.g. Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
• Eligible for Approved Clinician status and Approval under section 12 of the Mental Health Act

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Medical Lead for Mental Health Liaison Team