Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Dee Ward)

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Dee Ward)

The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the inpatient team at Clock View Hospital, Liverpool. The post is a newly created post, which will be available due to the reconfiguration of the medical model at Clock View Hospital. The post will be one of four general adult inpatient Consultants at Clock View Hospital. The post holder would be responsible for 17 patients on Dee ward, which is a female acute ward.

Clock View Hospital is a purpose built adult mental health facility based in Walton, Liverpool opened in 2015. There are 3 acute adult wards namely: Alt (mixed ward), Dee (female), and Morris (male). Clock view also houses Newton ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and an old age ward, Irwell.

The post currently attracts a 10% R&R payment which will be reviewed next year.

Main duties of the job

1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
5. To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager's hearings.
7. To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust's risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
8. To provide medical leadership to the team.
9. Liaise with carers.
10. To maintain effective communication with other services.
11. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support ward based staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
5. To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Managers hearings.
7. To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust's risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM) and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA) Meetings.
8. To provide medical leadership to the inpatient team.
9. Liaise with families / carers.
10. Liaise with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.
11. Liaise with other stakeholders and interested parties.
12. The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with other services, including in-patient and community mental health teams, and primary care.
13. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
14. 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.
15. Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
16. Participation in the training of other disciplines.
17. Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
18. Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
19. Leads and manages a team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• 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 within 3 months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Ability to work and lead team.
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• 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.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.

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.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus 10% R&R payment (non-contractual) and 1% on call.