Consultant Psychiatrist - Walton CMHT

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

1 whole time equivalent (WTE) consultant psychiatrist (this post)

1 WTE higher / core Psychiatric Trainee.

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, 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.

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., £109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum, plus 7.5% R&R (non contractual) and on call