Community Consultant Psychiatrist

As a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist within the Leigh Moss Community Health Team for Older Adults, you will be leading a multidisciplinary team providing high-quality mental health care for service users under part of the North Liverpool caseload.

The team has recently moved base from Mossley Hill Hospital in South Liverpool to the new facility at Leigh Moss Hospital in Knotty Ash, a stone's throw away from Alder Hey Children's Hospital.

You will be managing patients with both functional and organic presentations in the community and there is an experienced Consultant body based at Leigh Moss Hospital to provide support. There is a new inpatient facility at Leigh Moss Hospital (Fern ward) where service users with dementia requiring inpatient care can be admitted to.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and ongoing management of service users referred into the Older Adults CMHT based at Leigh Moss Hospital. In addition, you will provide supervision to the multidisciplinary team as well as to any trainee doctors placed within the team. You will be expected to liaise with colleagues in other medical specialities such as Geriatrics, Movement Disorders, Neurology, and Neuroradiology where required in order to provide coordinated MDT working for service users.

You will be expected to participate in the Trust-wide teaching programme which is held on Tuesday mornings and will have dedicated SPA time in order to engage with personal professional development activities, audit, and will also be encouraged to take up further management roles as the opportunities arise.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.

Job responsibilities

There are two MDTs covering the North of Liverpool. Each of these MDTs receives referrals from 12 GP surgeries in the local area. The post holder will be leading one of these MDTs. The annual number of referrals into the post holder's MDT was 403 last year. In the 2020-2021 year, the annual number of referrals was 304. In 2019-2020 this number was 194. The over 65-year-old population in Liverpool as a whole is 73,800 (correct as of 2020 ONS Population Estimate) which accounts for 14.7% of the whole population of Liverpool (500,500). The catchment area in the North of Liverpool which the post holder's MDT covers has a total over 65-year-old population of 12,750. The current caseload for the post holder's MDT is 326.

The total annual number of referrals to Leigh Moss Hospital Community Older Adult Services has remained stable over a period of at least 8 years, ranging from a minimum of 1501 in 2020 up to a maximum of 1764 in 2021 and all years going back to 2014 otherwise having a total number of approximately 1650.

The post holder will be the Responsible Clinician for patients in their caseload within the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. There are allocated GP surgeries for each caseload within the service and these are allocated to ensure equity in terms of number of referrals. In line with New Ways of Working, the post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory, and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team's work. They will take an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the service. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership to the Team whose role is to provide assessment, management, and support to people who may need contact with Older Adults Mental Health services. Practitioners within the team will support access to services in a timely manner, as well as ensure arrangements are in place to enhance smooth pathways between primary care and secondary services. The post holder will be enabled to work in a consultative manner, being accessible to team members, GP and primary care staff, patients, and carers, for the provision of expert advice and interventions in a timely manner. The post holder will operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, which include Health staff and Social services staff. The post holder will be expected to be part of the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team.

Person SpecificationRegistration

• Full registration with General Medical Council
• Inclusion on or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council or within 6 months of CCST/CCT or equivalent in Old Age Psychiatry at the date of interview
• Section 12 (2) Approval + Approved Clinician Status or demonstrated ability to gain approval
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Qualifications & Training

• MbChb, MBBS or equivalent
• Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent, 3 years of higher professional training in Old Age Psychiatry
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management
• Additional Qualifications

Transport

• Holds valid UK driving licence and will use own car for work-related travel OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent clinical 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
• Experience in working previously in similar roles at a relevant level.
• Training or worked as a DoLs assessor
• Experience in management and service development Knowledge and use of IT systems

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Participated in continuous professional development
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• Able to plan and deliver teaching and training relevant to this post
• Reflected on the purpose of CPD undertaken
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change

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 per annum plus 10% R&R and on-call supplement

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