# Consultant Psychiatrist - Salford Mental Health Liaison Service > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-salford-mental-health-liaison-service/7dddfea5-d060-471d-a872-4d3912aa9fee - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-psychiatrist-salford-mental-health-liaison-service/7dddfea5-d060-471d-a872-4d3912aa9fee.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 Per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T11:13:25.318Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Manchester/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Liaison_Psychiatry/Liaison_Psychiatry-v8080804 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8080804?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (SMHLT) provide a 24-hour, 7 day a week service to Salford Royal Hospital (SRH), part of the Northern Care Alliance (NCA). The post holder will be joining a multidisciplinary psychiatric liaison service designed to be integrated into the acute hospital but to maintain strong links to mental health services. The Salford Mental Health Liaison Team is one of the most established Liaison Teams in Greater Manchester, with strong links across the city-wide liaison network.  The team will provide rapid assessments, treatments and interventions and aid an early safe discharge of patients back into the most appropriate setting. The current psychiatric liaison services receive about 500-600 referrals a month ### Main duties of the job - Ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant. - Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients. - Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly to the Information Department. - Participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service. - Participate in annual appraisal for consultants. - Attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme. - Maintain good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists for CPD. - Attend local peer supervision meetings and join CPD peer group (support available to identify) - Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval process, and to abide by professional codes of conduct. - Participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more details about this role and the responsibilities please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification. ## Job Details The Salford Mental Health Liaison Team (SMHLT) provide a 24-hour, 7 day a week service to Salford Royal Hospital (SRH), part of the Northern Care Alliance (NCA). The post holder will be joining a multidisciplinary psychiatric liaison service designed to be integrated into the acute hospital but to maintain strong links to mental health services. The Salford Mental Health Liaison Team is one of the most established Liaison Teams in Greater Manchester, with strong links across the city-wide liaison network. The team will provide rapid assessments, treatments and interventions and aid an early safe discharge of patients back into the most appropriate setting. The current psychiatric liaison services receive about 500-600 referrals a month ## Job Description Ensure that junior medical staff working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant. Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients. Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively, and submit this promptly to the Information Department. Participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service. Participate in annual appraisal for consultants. Attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme. Maintain good standing with the Royal College of Psychiatrists for CPD. - Attend local peer supervision meetings and join CPD peer group (support available to identify) Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval process, and to abide by professional codes of conduct. Participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation. ## Responsibilities For more details about this role and the responsibilities please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification. ## Person Specification ### Eligibility **Essential** - Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment. - Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months. - Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment - Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment **Desirable** - In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice ### Qualifications **Essential** - MB BS or equivalent medical qualification. **Desirable** - MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. ## Documents - [job description (docx, 64.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10427508) - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.