Consultant in General Adult Liaison Psychiatry

Job summary

Consultant in General Adult Liaison Psychiatry

Salary: £88,364- £119,133 (dependent upon service)

Caludon Centre, Coventry

Full time, permanent role

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) invites applications for a full time Consultant in Older Adult Psychiatry to join our Arden Mental Health Acute Team (AMHAT) providing comprehensive acute liaison in mental health services.

CWPT provides Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community services to over one million people living in Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull and seeing on average around 5000 patients every day. Rated good by the CQC, the Trust is an organisation that is continuously improving and we welcome interest from individuals who want to make a difference.

We believe that high quality consultant appointments are key to providing quality services and ensuring senior clinical leadership continues and builds. We are looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic, forward-thinking individuals who can work within the Trust and with partners to develop a dynamic, responsive, and patient centred service.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

The post holder will work with a dedicated mental health liaison team based at the Caludon Centre. The service accepts referrals of patients of all ages over 16. There will be an expectation that the consultant will work flexibly across local acute sites when required. The AMHAT aims to optimise the physical and psychosocial wellbeing of individuals who present in an emergency or are admitted to acute hospitals. Located at South Warwick Hospital (SWFT), George Elliot Hospital (GEH) and University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire (UHCW) the AMHAT provides effective liaison between mental health services and emergency departments / acute inpatient wards.

Each post is based on a 10 PA job plan (7.5 PAs in Direct Clinical Care and 2.5 PAs in Supporting Professional Activities). The post also requires participation in a consultant on call rota with a frequency of approximately one in fifteen, with responsibility for both inpatients and community patients.

About us

As a teaching Trust with close links to Warwick & Buckingham Medical Schools the post holder will be expected to take part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.