Consultant Psychiatrist - Arundel CMHT

Main area Consultant Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 10 sessions per week (DCC7.5; SPA2.5) Job ref 350-MED6962675-A

Site Baird House, Liverpool Innovation Park Town Liverpool Salary £105,504 - £139,882 n/a Salary period Yearly Closing 17/04/2025 23:59

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

Job overview

The post holder will provide medical leadership into the Arundel CMHT, based in Baird House Community Hub. There is currently one other consultant in the Arundel CMHT which has now been reconfigured into 2 full-time posts. The Arundel CMHT covers a wide and diverse area of central and South Liverpool. Arundel CMHT holds a caseload of approximately 700 patients split into 2 MDTs each clinically led by a consultant Psychiatrist (therefore each post has on average 350 patients on their caseload – this will be dependent on active caseload management). There is scope for some additional caseload work, and therefore the caseload in each of the MDTs is still expected to further reduce. Each full-time consultant will start with a caseload of approximately 350 patients. There are approximately 8 patients subject to CTO in each of the MDTs. Each full-time post holder will share the team’s specialty doctor (Section 12 approved). Each Full-time post holder will also share a Nurse Consultant (who is currently working towards Approved Clinician approval). Each post holder will have a trainee. Each consultant has medical secretary input and support from a local pool of transcriptionists. There are also designated team secretaries to support the teams regarding MDT meetings, clinical reviews, general admin tasks; and an appointments team (PAC) to administer the outpatient clinics.

Main duties of the job

This is a 10 session post which is split into 7.5 sessions for Direct Clinical Care and 2.5 sessions for Supporting Professional Activities.

Clinical

• Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for their CMHT caseload.
• To supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
• To carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
• Supporting staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
• To conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, patient reviews and multi-professional meetings.
• Maintain high level of effective communication with other parts of the Mental health service across the Trust.
• Liaison with families / carers
• Liaison with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.

Governance

• Programmed activity time will allow for management and audit of the service and reporting of audit programmes.
• Regular stakeholder meetings if required.
• Partnership Forums involving service user representatives and advocacy.
• Involvement with critical incident / serious untoward incident reporting and response

Training

• Direct supervision of junior medical staff
• Role in in-house MDT training / education sessions

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 and Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty
• 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
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.