Consultant Psychiatrist Anfield CMHT

Tripple Tree Ltd; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated consultant psychiatrist to join their dynamic team at Norris Green Hub. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of adults in the Liverpool area, addressing complex mental health needs. The position involves conducting clinical assessments, supervising new service assessments, and managing a diverse team of professionals. With a commitment to 'perfect care', this organization supports staff in delivering high-quality mental health services while promoting flexible working arrangements. Join a forward-thinking team that values collaboration and innovation in mental health care.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Occupational health support

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must maintain GMC registration and participate in annual appraisals.
• Experience in managing complex and high-risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct clinical reviews and manage team caseload.
• Undertake referrals from inpatient services and A&E.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Supervision

Team Management

Crisis Management

Education

Medical Degree

Specialist Training in Psychiatry

Job description

The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Anfield CMHT based at Norris Green Hub, Falklands Approach, L11. This vacancy has arisen due to the retirement of the previous substantive post holder. 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, which is a demographically mixed area overall, with some areas of social deprivation and 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 organised in three distinct CMHTs. This CMHT consists of:

1. 1 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultant psychiatrist (this post)
2. 1 WTE higher/core Psychiatric Trainee
3. 5 WTE dedicated medical secretaries, Band 4 and a full-time band 3 shared with the other 2 teams
4. 1 Band 7 team leader
5. 5 WTE community psychiatric nurses (band 6 and band 5)
6. 7 WTE social workers shared between the 3 teams
7. 1 WTE senior occupational therapist, Band 6 shared between the 3 teams
8. 1 WTE psychologist
9. 4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the 3 teams

Key Responsibilities:

1. Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E, and the access team.
2. Conducting clinical reviews.
3. Supervising new to service assessments as required.
4. Undertaking very complex/high-risk new to service assessments.
5. Managing team caseload.

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 commissioned for services covering the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health, including 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 costs as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Participation in annual appraisal for consultants.
2. Maintaining professional registration with the General Medical Council.
3. Compliance with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders, and financial instructions.

Work Programme:

It is envisaged that the post holder will work 10 programmed activities over 5 days. Following appointment, there will be a meeting at no later than three months with the clinical manager to review and revise the job plan and objectives of the post holder.

On-call and cover arrangements:

The post holder will be included in the daily on-call rota for North Liverpool. There is usually always a higher trainee ST4-6 first on call at night.

Wellbeing:

Effective local occupational health support (confidential, includes modalities of self-referral, promoted regularly at induction and when in post).

Please see job description for further details.