Consultant Psychiatrist - Wigan Mental Health Liaison Team

Job overview

This team provides 24 hrs, emergency, hospital-based, mental health assessments for service users who have presented to A & E or have been admitted to the medical wards.

The team provides short-term, time-limited input and has a liaison role. The team is based at Christopher Home (Royal Albert Infirmary, Wigan). The team has been operational since November 2013.

Mental Health Urgent Response Team:

This is an established team based at Christopher Home, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.

It is the single point of referral/access - for all service users referred to Adult Mental Health Services. It is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The service facilitates assessment and intervention at the first point of contact, following PbR (Payment by Results) Care Clustering - facilitating a needs - led care framework.

The Mental Health Urgent Response Team offers a model of collaborative care, at the interface between primary and specialist mental health care.

Main duties of the job

Clinical role    •    Undertake assessments of referrals/ admissions to the service  •    Diagnose and formulate management plans in complex presentations.  •    Provide management in treatment resistant and complex presentations.  •    Assessment and management of risk including of vulnerability, suicide risk, risks to health and safety and risk of harm to others.  •    To be the nominated RC for those patients who are attending RAEI under section 17 leave at the request of ward RC.   •    Work in a collaborative way with multidisciplinary teams including external partners.  •    Work in partnership with psychiatrists from partner providers such as Forensic and  Rehabilitation Psychiatrists.    Leadership role    •    Lead clinical decision making in the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high-quality care.  •    Develop service clinical priorities in line with national and professional guidance and standards.  •    Engage with service transformation programmes including attendance at consultant meetings for their service and directorate.    Educational role    •    Provide clinical supervision for trainees in gaining core psychiatric experience.  •    Provide clinical supervision for psychiatric trainees in achieving competencies in core general psychiatry.   •    Provide input in relation to medical students from UCLAN who are based on the ward.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details about this role and the responsibilities please see attached full Job Description and Person Specification.