Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Community Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist
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Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist
As a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist working for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high quality care.
Role Description
As a leader of the outpatient multi-disciplinary team at The Beckett Unit, Hollins Park, you will manage the community mental health team and Memory service, providing clinical care to service users who have been referred for older adults mental health care and specialist cognitive assessment.
- Work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines to deliver holistic care.
- Complete assessments of new referrals to the team.
- Make formulations and manage treatment to optimise the quality of life of the service users under your caseload.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the Responsible Clinician for patients in your caseload within the Later Life & Memory Service based at The Beckett Unit.
- Provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team’s work.
- Take an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the service.
- Provide leadership to the Team whose role is to provide assessment, management and support to older adults who have been referred for assessment of cognitive function and functional mental disorders.
- Support access to services in a timely manner and ensure arrangements are in place to enhance smooth pathways between primary care and secondary services.
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Working Environment
- Operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, which include Health staff and Social services staff.
- Be part of the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team.
About Mersey Care
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.
- Offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services.
- One of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
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Our Commitment
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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Andrew Kiridoshi
- Job title: Associate Clinical Director
- Email address: Andrew.Kiridoshi@merseycare.nhs.uk
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