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Liaison Psychiatry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
Contract
Permanent: 10 PA
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Possible Oncall)
Job ref
311-M065-22-S
Employer
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bury Fairfield hospital
Town
Bury
Closing
08/12/2024 23:59

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Speciality Doctor Liaison Psychiatry

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor

 

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Job overview

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to make a full time appointment for a Speciality Doctor to work in the well-established Mental Health Liaison Team based at Fairfield Hospital Bury. This is a substantive appointment. The appointee will have a role in consolidating the developments that have occurred within this service recently helping the service continue to develop in order to meet the ‘Core 24’ standards defined by the Department of Health.

Main duties of the job

These include clinical, liaison, educational, managerial and service evaluation roles. Clinical work will include assessment and interventions with patients in the Acute Trust and involve working with an expanding multidisciplinary liaison mental health team. The team will promote the development of skills in this area within the Acute Trust and pathway development.

Working for our organisation

The post holder will join the existing consultant liaison psychiatrists and liaison mental health team with the aim of improving the standard of care provided to acute Trust patients. There will be close links with the liaison mental health developments across both Pennine Care and Greater Manchester.

This is an exciting time to join the Trust and there are opportunities to contribute to the organisations’ development including service redesign involving more integrated models of person centred care for our local community. Bury has a very strong teaching commitment and the post holder will be expected to contribute to the teaching of both mental health and non-mental health staff.  There are close links to ongoing research projects within the service and academic links are encouraged.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to make a full time appointment for a consultant psychiatrist to work in the well-established Mental Health Liaison Team based at Fairfield Hospital Bury. This is a substantive appointment. The appointee will have a lead role in consolidating the developments that have occurred within this service recently helping the service continue to develop in order to meet the ‘Core 24’ standards defined by the Department of Health.

This is a rewarding and exciting post within a highly supportive environment and you will be working within a dynamic and responsive team.

You will be welcomed and supported in developing your skills and contributions to the borough, the wider organisation and beyond.

Key Responsibilities of the Post:

These include clinical, liaison, educational, managerial and service evaluation roles. Clinical work will include assessment and interventions with patients in the Acute Trust and involve working with an expanding multidisciplinary liaison mental health team. The team will promote the development of skills in this area within the Acute Trust and pathway development

Person specification

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • MBChB or equivalent.
  • Section 12 Approval or a willingness to seek approval.
Desirable criteria
  • MRCPsych or equivalent
  • Registered as completed Higher Training with the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Progress towards additional Post Graduate Degree, such as MSc. or MD.

SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria
  • Good Interpersonal and team working skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Knowledge of relevant requirements and legislation such as the Mental Health Act, Care Programme Approach etc
Desirable criteria
  • An additional area of relevant special interest e.g. ECT
  • Actively involved in continuing professional development

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of 4 years post graduate experience, at CT, ST or Staff Grade level
  • Experience relevant to working Age Psychiatry
  • Experience of teaching and training
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of management
  • Experience of service development and planning.
  • Worked for a total of 10 years since primary qualification (which is acceptable by GMC for full/limited or temporary registration)

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ankur Khanna
Job title
Clinical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0161 716 1045
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