Community Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist
Employer:
NHS Jobs
Location:
Warrington, WA2 8WA
Pay:
£109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year, £109725.00 – £145478.00 a year
Contract Type:
Permanent
Hours:
Full time
Disability Confident:
No
About this job
The overall pathway for the older adult service at Warrington LLAMS is as below
- All referrals are added to the Assessment pathway upon receipt and referrals are autonomously screened by senior nursing staff from the team on a daily basis.
This practitioner may seek support from team management for certain referrals or discuss with the Consultant if greater medical oversight is felt to be required on a case by base basis.
For all accepted referrals, a screening call is completed within 72 hours and an initial assessment is then completed by a Band 6 practitioner or above within two weeks.
Once the initial assessment has been completed then a diagnostic appointment is made with the Consultant Psychiatrist in order to establish the diagnosis and management plan.
Referrals are received from the GP/first response service/other medical specialty
For cognitive assessments, once the initial assessment is completed by the postholder or their trainee medic, if a diagnosis of dementia is confirmed and treatment is commenced the patient will be booked in for Memory Team review at 11 weeks, 3 months and then 6 monthly thereafter.
Any confirmed diagnoses of Mild Cognitive Impairment are discharged from the service with appropriate advice.
If further investigations are required these are requested prior to commencing treatment.
The over-65 catchment population in the Warrington area as a whole is 41,115 (19.43% of the whole population in Warrington). The annual number of referrals to the Warrington Later Life & Memory Service as a whole was 1251 between October 2024 and September 2025. The mean number of referrals per month was 104 per month.
There are two MDTs within the Warrington Later Life & Memory Service and the number of referrals to the postholders team is approximately 50% of these total figures.
The current total caseload for the postholders MDT is 1019. In addition, there is a separate Care Home Liaison team caseload which the postholder will manage along with care home liaison team practitioners and the current caseload size for this is 45, with the average number of referrals per month over the past 12 months to this team being33. Core Trainees in Psychiatry and Higher Trainees in Old Age Psychiatry (or Dual Higher Trainees in Old Age & General Adult Psychiatry) are usually placed with Warrington LLAMS. The post holders MDT is usually assigned a Core Trainee in Old Age Psychiatry and the other MDT based at Warrington LLAMS, led by Dr Rosemary Cameron, is assigned a Higher Trainee.
The postholder covers 18 GP surgeries in the Warrington area, covering the South and West of Warrington. 23 care homes are covered by the postholder, including three dementia plus homes.
Jobs are provided by the Find a Job Service from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).
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