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Job overview

** Pending College Approval** 

MPFT are seeking a permanent full time Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry based in the Shrewsbury Community Mental Health Service 

You will provide timely and comprehensive assessment, interventions and treatments to service users and their families/carers, who are typically presenting with severe mental illness whilst working within a multi-disciplinary team format. The team base is in Telford. 

The role also involves providing clinical leadership to the team as part of a collective leadership structure. 

Main duties of the job

Professional duties of the post

•    To comply with all Trust policies and the Living Our Values Framework.
•    To maintain professional registration with the GMC and a full Licence to Practice, be engaging in appraisal, revalidation and job planning. 
•    To maintain Approved Clinician (AC) status
•    To comply with Trust mandatory training
•    To operate with transparency, including maintenance of an electronic diary

Clinical duties of the post

• To ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway – via individual assessments and follow up appointments, MDT meetings and sometimes the Care Programme Approach (CPA) review, particularly where the complexity requires it
• To be the Responsible Clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable
• To provide evidence based care
• To be recovery focused
• To provide cross-cover (emergency and prospective) for other Consultant Psychiatrist colleagues by mutual agreement
• To communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way including service users, carers and General Practitioners.
• To work within the requirements of service contracts including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards

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