Consultant Psychiatrist – Walton CMHT | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Salary: £113,565 - £150,569 per annum, plus 7.5% R&R; (non contractual) and on call

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

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 recent 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.

Appraisal and job planning

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 and training

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.

Research

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.

Mental Health Act and Responsible Clinician approval

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.

Clinical governance and quality assurance

Expected contribution to clinical governance and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards.

Participation in clinical audit and other local assurance processes.

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📌 Consultant Psychiatrist – Walton CMHT | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (Liverpool)
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