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The Trust is seeking a consultant psychiatrist to join Moss House CMHT ( 1 ) based at Moss House, Garston (South Liverpool). The vacancy has arisen as a result of the previous substantive post holder moving to another post, and is currently filled with an agency locum. This post is one of two CMHT general adult consultant psychiatrist posts (the other also 1 WTE) within Moss community hub.

The post-holder will be expected to hold clinical responsibility for the full caseload working alongside other members of from the Community Mental Health Team.

Through the Community transformation programme, we will move towards intervention-based care, which will include depot pathway, and other clinically indicated pathways to manage patients as part of a wider team, rather than solely dependent upon medical reviews.

Average numbers of CTO patients is 8 across both teams, although this number varies in time. On average there were 6 MHRT/Managers meetings attended in the last 12 months.

The Post Holder will be supported to develop educational supervisor responsibilities for one junior trainee and clinical Supervisor Role for the other trainee. 

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant CMHT psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the strategic development of the team as part of wider community mental health services of the Local Division.

The post holder would be expected to be an Approved Clinician or if not already be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.     

CLINICAL DUTIES OF POST HOLDER

• Hold Consultant Psychiatrist responsibility for Moss House CMHT
• Be actively involved in the leadership, management and decision making within the Community Mental Health Team
• Utilise a flexible approach to delivery of clinical care so that it best meets the needs of service users and carers.
• Supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
• Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
• Support MDT staff to manage psychiatric emergencies
• Conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, and multi- professional meetings
• Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
• Ensure that management plans are clearly displayed in the medical records and undertake administrative duties associated with the care of the patient.
• Foster relationships between staff within each organisation, and also with the local Clinical Commissioning Groups.
• To act as team responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 and carry out duties in accordance to the code of practice.
• To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and as required participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM)
• Maintain a high level of effective communication and work flexibly and co- operatively with other parts of the service including; inpatient units, other community mental health teams, specialist services and primary care.
• Liaison with families / carers other stakeholders and interested parties
• The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with IAPT services and other community mental health teams and primary care.
• The post holder would need to have achieved Approved Clinician status , recognised by the Trust , by commencement of clinical duties as they are required to act in this capacity if responsible for CTO patients and any other patients subject to the Mental Health Act as part of the out of hours rota.

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