THIS ROLE OFFERS AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO:
Work closely with experienced Consultants and multidisciplinary teams
Contribute to high standards of patient care and service development
Take on leadership opportunities and help shape clinical practice
Be part of a forward-thinking Trust that values continuous improvement and clinician-led innovation
If you are a motivated and compassionate doctor looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health care, we would love to hear from you.
- Support the Consultant Psychiatrist providing medical input for patients across Dee ward and Morris ward.
- Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
- Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
- Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings..
- To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
- To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
- To provide medical leadership to the team.
- Liaise with carers.
- To maintain effective communication with other services.
- Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Local working arrangements
- Inpatient care for service users is provided by Consultants working within the Acute Care teams at Broadoak Unit, Clock View Hospital, Windsor House, all based in Liverpool, and Hartley Hospital based in Southport.
- Clock View Hospital is an adult mental health facility based in Walton, Liverpool opened in 2015. There are 3 acute adult wards namely: Alt (mixed ward), Dee (female), and Morris (male). Clock view also houses Newton ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and an old age ward, Irwell. All wards across the Trust take admissions, as well as patient transfers.
Clinical duties of post holder
- Support the Consultant Psychiatrist providing medical input for patients across Dee ward, and Morris ward.
- Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
- Support ward based staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
- Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
- To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
- To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM) and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA) Meetings.
- To provide medical leadership to the inpatient team.
- Liaise with families / carers.
- Liaise with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.
- Liaise with other stakeholders and interested parties.
- The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with other services, including in-patient and community mental health teams, and primary care.
- Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues.
- Provide cross cover to other wards when required
Training duties
- Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
- Participation in the training of other disciplines.
- Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
- Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
- Engage in supervision with supervising consultants
General duties
- To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.
- To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.
- To participate in annual appraisal.
- To attend and participate in the academic programme of the Trust, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme.
- To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
- To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
- To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services
External duties, roles and responsibilities
- The Trust actively supports the involvement of the consultant body in regional and national groups subject to discussion and approval with the medical director and, as necessary, the chief executive officer
Other duties
- From time to time it may be necessary for the post holder to carry out such other duties as may be assigned, with agreement, by the Trust. It is expected that the post holder will not unreasonably withhold agreement to any reasonable proposed changes that the Trust might make
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