OverviewEPUT is looking to appoint an enthusiastic and passionate Consultant Psychiatrist to join and lead on the Mental Health Liaison Team in North East Essex. This is a well-established service, with the vacancy arising as the result of career progression. The post provides mental health consultation and liaison advice to wards and AandE departments in Colchester General Hospital. The Mental Health Liaison Team provides comprehensive psychiatric assessment and management for patients of all ages presenting to the general hospital with coexisting mental health difficulties, including urgent and emergency presentations to the Emergency Department (ED), as well as referrals from medical and surgical inpatient wards at Colchester General Hospital. The team supports timely assessment, treatment planning, and safe discharge, with a strong emphasis on integrated working with acute hospital colleagues. This team works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Liaison Team works closely with Home Treatment Teams, Crisis Response Services, and community teams across Colchester and Tendring to provide coordinated and person-centred care.

The trust is actively supportive of newly qualified consultants pursuing professional development, with opportunities to deepen and broaden skills, including educational and research interests to provide high quality care and safety. We have excellent links with the medical school at ARU and other educational establishments where we have shared appointments in teaching and research.

Responsibilities

Provide, with consultant colleagues, a service in the specialty for the Trust with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.

Honour out-of-hours responsibilities, including rota commitments where contracted.

Provide agreed cover for consultant colleagues'' periods of leave.

Provide professional supervision of junior medical staff.

Participate in audit and continuing medical education.

Contribute to the training of junior medical staff and medical students, and devote time to this activity on a regular basis.

Be involved in research and teaching where appropriate.

Undertake managerial, including budgetary, responsibility where appropriate.

Qualifications

You must have full GMC registration and be on the Specialist Register, with an appropriate CCT or equivalent or be within six months of obtaining your CCT on the date of the AAC.

Important Application InformationPlease ensure that, as part of your application, you include professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post; the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Equal Opportunities and AccessibilityOur Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have pledged to employ more people with learning disabilities, encouraging people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format (e.g., Braille or audio), please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

Additional InformationThe Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they wish. We advise applicants to check their registered email with NHS Jobs regularly, and note that if you have not heard within three weeks of the closing date your application may be unsuccessful.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Important Notice: Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2021 require certain roles to have had both COVID vaccinations, unless exempt. This is a requirement of this role and will form part of pre-employment checks.

Trust Prospects and BenefitsOur Trust cares for more than 100,000 patients at any one time across our community health, mental health and learning disability services across Essex and parts of Bedfordshire and Suffolk. We offer a range of benefits and development opportunities including:

Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer

Join us and you''ll do the best work of your life—and make a difference to other people''s lives. What we do together matters.

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