Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic, permanent full time, Consultant Psychiatrist in Liaison Psychiatry 

Liaison Psychiatry Service provide specialist care at Royal Shrewsbury hospital (RSH), Princess Royal hospital (PRH), community hospital of Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Oswestry (RJAH).

The emphasis is to provide timely and comprehensive assessment, interventions and treatment to service users and their families/carers, where a functional or organic mental disorder is suspected or evident.  The ‘community’ the post serves is the population within the general hospitals, regardless of their home locality.

Main duties of the job

You will: Providede a timely and flexible response to referrals, to meet the demands of the PRH/RSH hospitals

• Work with the following groups of people who may attend or be admitted to the acute hospital setting (not an exhaustive list):
• People who have self-harmed
• People with physical and psychological consequences of alcohol/substance misuse
• Frail elderly people with possible delirium/depression/dementia
• People with known severe mental illness particularly when in relapse
• People admitted with primarily physical health symptoms which may also have a psychological/social cause
• Vulnerable groups including people who are homeless, experience personality difficulties, subject to domestic abuse/violence and Provide comprehensive mental health assessment; assist with diagnosis, care and specialist discharge planning, risk assessment and management, including signposting to people referred to the service.
• Provide Mental Health related training to staff members at the hospital sites to raise awareness of mental health conditions.
• Work closely and in partnership with other services and organisations to contribute to a seamless service of mental health provision and the development of appropriate care pathways for onward referral of individuals in need of further assessment and support.

For full list please see Job Description attached

Working for our organisation

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping  your communities and in return for this, we will support you by; 

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people. 

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications