Consultant Psychiatrist in Home Treatment Team and Crisis Line

☞ Cheshire & Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Update day: 28-05-2024

Location: Chester North West

Category: Consulting / Customer Service IT - Software Sales

Industry: Hospitals Health Care

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

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The post holder will provide clinical leadership and high-quality assessment and treatment to patients in the least restrictive environment. Consultant will provide leadership to both home treatment team and crisis line.

The consultant will participate in the Consultant Psychiatrist on-call rota.

The team provide assessment and home treatment to those presenting with acute psychiatric crisis until such times that there is a resolution, and their care can be transferred back to the appropriate Community based Teams or Discharged back to Primary Care. Referrals are accepted from Single Point of Access based in the Primary Care Mental Health Team, Community AMHS Teams, Early Intervention Services, In-patient services and Liaison Psychiatry. Calls are triaged by the team and priority given accordingly. Those meeting the criteria in the operational policy are assessed and follow-up is organised.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool – and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

Apply now to join our skilled and friendly teams and help us to deliver our vision to improve health and wellbeing by providing high quality care. We offer a variety of roles at all levels.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Amrith Shetty Job title: Consultant/Clinical Director Email address: amrith.shetty1@nhs.net
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Deadline: 12-07-2024

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