Consultant Psychiatrist, Older Adults - Ormskirk

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As An Integrated Mental Health, Learning Disability And Community Trust, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust Provides a Range Of Services Including

Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, Psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, flexi-time and career breaks.
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Job Overview

Consultant Psychiatrist, Older Adult Psychiatry - SPOA/RITT/MAS, Ormskirk
*Golden Hello payment Payable*
This post is eligible for a 5% payment of basic salary payable over 2 years
We are looking to recruit a Consultant Psychiatrist to work with the Older Adult Single Point of Access/Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team/Memory Assessment Service. This substantive post is full time (10 PA) and based at Brookside, Ormskirk.
Main duties of the job
You would work with a range of other health professionals to deliver these services as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). The clinical component of this post is focussed on the care of the patients referred to the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), Rapid Intervention and Treatment Team (RITT) and Memory Assessment Service (MAS).
The postholder would be expected to join the On Call rota, which is 1:17 and would receive an additional payment of 3% and 0.5 PA.
Applicants should hold full GMC registration and be included on the Specialist register of the GMC or they should be eligible for entry to the Specialist Register within 6 months of the interview date.
It is a requirement that applicants are Section 12 Approved at the time of commencing employment and have or are eligible to have Approved Clinician Status. Remuneration will be as set out in the terms of the New Consultant Contract according to previous experience.
Working for our organisation

The Role

2.5 SPAs as standard for a full time post Excellent Older Adult peer support group Opportunities to be a clinical and educational supervisor Fantastic newly built studio accommodation available Relocation package available.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust has over 100 Consultant Psychiatrists and is recognised as one of the best NHS employers in the country. We are proud to have amongst our Consultant workforce, recent winners of; the RCPsych CESR Evaluator of the Year, RCPsych Researcher of the Year, & RCPsych North West Division Trainer of the Year.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

This post is eligible for a bonus payment of 5% of basic salary paid in 4 instalments over 2 years. Do get in touch with us to find out more about our posts and this added welcome bonus to all our eligible new appointees.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details about this role.
Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
MBBS or equivalent Full GMC registration and Licence to Practise On GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months S12 approved AC status or within 3 months

Experience

Essential criteria
Excellent knowledge and experience in relevant specialty
Please note that further communication from Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LCFT) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSC FT to contact them.
Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
For all posts which require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure & Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Care is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (especially those with experience of accessing mental health, or Learning Disability Services or caring for someone who has accessed mental health services or Learning Disability Services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. The organisation is proud to be listed as one of the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers and our HR department holds the Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.