Consultant Psychiatrist – Walton Cmht
Mersey Care Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join the Walton CMHT at Norris Green Hub. The post is part of a three-consultant team serving adults in the Norris Green catchment, with responsibilities including clinical reviews, complex assessments and team supervision.
The Trust offers diverse services across physical and mental health, with opportunities for teaching, research and service development, and flexible working patterns.
Qualifications
- Essential: MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Desirable: MRCPsych or equivalent.
- Desirable: Additional qualifications in medical education or management.
Responsibilities
- Undertake referrals from inpatient services, A&E and the access team.
- Clinical reviews and supervise new to service assessments.
- Undertake very complex/high risk new to service assessments.
- Manage team caseload.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Walton CMHT based at Norris Green Hub, 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 Walton catchment areas. This is a demographically mixed area overall, but with some areas of social deprivation and 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 organised in three distinct CMHTs. This CMHT consists of:
- 1 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultant psychiatrist (this post)
- 1 WTE higher / core Psychiatric Trainee.
- 0.5 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
- 1 WTE psychologist.
- 4 WTE support time and recovery workers, Band 3 shared between the 3 teams
- Input from the Hub Lithium Clinic and Health and Wellbeing Clinic.
- Undertaking referrals from inpatient services, A&E and the access team.
- Clinical reviews
- Supervise new to service assessments as required
- Undertake very complex/high risk new to service assessments
- Manage 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 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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Date posted: 28 September 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum, plus 7.5% R&R (non contractual) and on call
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 350-MED7887294-C
Job locations: Norris Green Hub, Falklands Approach, Liverpool, L11 5BS, United Kingdom
Trust commitment to implementation of annual consultant appraisal, outlined in the NHS Executive Advance Letters (MD) 6/00 and (MD) 5/01.
Trust process, including linkage to job planning.
Trust processes to support appraisal, links to revalidation; named Responsible Officer.
Details of any Consultant Induction Programme and mentoring scheme / arrangements.
Teaching commitments of post, and support in place to achieve these.
Trust-wide teaching.
Teaching arrangements in locality/team.
Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
Participation in the training of other disciplines.
Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
DME is Dr Indira Vinjamuri
Synopsis of R&D department; trust research strategy, link with clinical research networks and university as applicable.
Support facilities.
Specific research and development responsibilities expected of the post holder.
The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
Participation in the training of other disciplines.
Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
Expected contribution to clinical governance and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards.
Participation in clinical audit and other local assurance processes.
Participation in service/team evaluation and the planning of future service developments.
Quality improvement
Leads and manages a team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning.
Utilises a quality improvement approach to think systemically about complex problems, develop potential change ideas and test these in practice using a systematic QI methodology.
Empowers the team to resolve local issues on a daily basis using the tools and method of quality improvement without staff having to seek permission.
Promotes awareness and understanding of quality improvement, and shares learning and successes from quality improvement work.
To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior medical staff as agreed between consultant colleagues and the medical director and in accordance with the Trusts personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
To ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant.
To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
To participate in annual appraisal for consultants.
To attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme.
To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.
To comply with the Trusts agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
The Trust actively supports the involvement of the consultant body in regional and national groups subject to discussion and approval with the chief medical officer and, as necessary, the chief executive officer.
From time to time, it may be necessary for the post holder to carry out such other duties as may be assigned, with agreement, by the Trust. It is expected that the post holder will not unreasonably withhold agreement to any reasonable proposed changes that the Trust might make.
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. The overall split of the programmed activities is 7.5 to be devoted to direct clinical care and 2.5 to supporting professional activities (as per the Royal College of Psychiatrists recommendation). The timetable is indicative only. A formal job plan will be agreed between the post holder and associate medical director or clinical manager three months after commencing the post and at least annually thereafter.
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. On-call availability supplement is 1% - Band B low frequency, low intensity and has been consistently for many years. The rota is currently shared with approximately 18 FTE colleagues, from adult, addictions and learning disability services.
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent.
- Additional clinical qualifications.
- 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.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
- Excellent knowledge in specialty of General Adult Psychiatry.
- 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.
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
- Ability to work constructively in and to lead a multidisciplinary team.
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
- Participated in continuous professional development.
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit.
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
- Audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Norris Green Hub, Falklands Approach, Liverpool, L11 5BS, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Clinical Director
Rebeca Martinez
Rebeca.Martinez@merseycare.nhs.uk
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