Job overview

Our North Shropshire Community Mental Health Service is welcoming applications to their post of Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry.

 This post enables dedicated Consultant input into community care and treatment within the pathway, with the facility for rapid assessment of referred patients, flexible review of complex patients and timely discharge in liaison with General Practitioners.  Service users will present with a range of mental health difficulties and need.

There is no CPA (Care Programme Approach) anymore and the NHS has moved to a Keyworker role. A Consultant may be a keyworker, where there is a service user who has no need to involve any other professional from the multi-disciplinary team, this may be required. All cases are discussed in MDT which is a core function of CMHS working

The role also involves providing clinical leadership and support to the team, and providing support and supervision as required to the Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Non-Medical Prescribers.  The Post Holder will have responsibility to supervise a trainee attached to the team, although as with any training post this is subject to trainee availability. Opportunities are also available in the Trust to participate in postgraduate and undergraduate education for Junior Doctors and Medical Students from Keele Medical School.

Main duties of the job

Clinical duties of the post

• To be the Responsible Clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable
• To ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway – via individual assessments and follow up appointments, MDT meetings
• To provide evidence-based care
• To be recovery focused
• To provide cross-cover (emergency and prospective) for other Consultant Psychiatrist colleagues by mutual agreement
• To communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way including service users, carers and General Practitioners.
• To work within the requirements of service contracts including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards
• To fully utilise Trust IT systems as appropriate to enable fulfilment of clinical duties; including launch of the electronic prescribing system
• The post-holder will take part in out of hours duties; on call work is remunerated at 3% as well as 0.25 APAs.

For further information please refer to the attached job description and job specification

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) 
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people. 

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.  

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications