Consultant - Liaison Psychiatry - Salford
Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a substantive consultant psychiatrist to join the Mental Health Liaison Team based at Salford Royal Hospital.
This is for an existing post, the successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team operating a CORE 24 service.
This post is an exciting opportunity to be involved in shaping and modernising mental health services in Greater Manchester.
The Liaison Service receives referrals from Salford Royal Hospital wards and emergency department. The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages, but the team’s consultants only sees patient over 16 years old.
The service has a ‘can do’ attitude and aims to work in a flexible manner and be as helpful as possible. Objectives of the service are to provide high quality assessments and effective liaison between service providers in the Mental Health Trust and the Acute Hospital Trust.
The service offers comprehensive psychiatric assessment, and further management if required whilst the patient remains an in-patient in Salford Royal Hospital.
The team provides effective liaison between the services which include Later Life Services, Acute Adult Psychiatry in-patients, Community Mental Health teams, Home Treatment Service, Emergency Services at Salford Royal, Acute in-patient wards, and elderly care wards.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work alongside the existing consultant liaison psychiatrist. The post holder will be expected to predominantly assess and manage adult of working age (AOWA) people admitted to Salford Royal, and emergency assessments in the emergency department and also provide the consultant input for the intermediate care unit.
There are 2 other substantive Liaison Consultant Psychiatrists within the team. One of them predominantly works with older age (OA) adults in the most acute areas of the hospital. The other is dual trained and works across both AOWA and OA. They share responsibility for the complex working age patients on the main medical and surgical wards.
The post holder will also be expected to cross cover for the other liaison colleagues, especially for annual leave exceptional circumstances. The division of referrals of Salford Royal in-patients will be dependent on who is available to respond within commissioned expected response times.
Working for our organisation
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 6,400 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.
Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.
Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details about this role and the responsibilities please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a license to practice 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 with 3 months of appointment
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
Important Information about working for GMMH:
All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www..nhsemployers.org
Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.
The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities.If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.
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Do you have experience outside the NHS?
We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.
We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.
**Please note, this vacancy may be closed at any time if sufficient applications have been received**