Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist - Medium Secure Services
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Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to join the Medium Secure Inpatient Services. This is a newly created post, arising from the continued expansion of the Trust’s Medium Secure Services.
Role Details
The post comprises:
- 7.5 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) sessions
- 2.5 Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) sessions
The service delivers specialist medium secure inpatient care for the Merseyside and Cheshire regions. Rowan View, which opened in 2020, provides 95 inpatient beds (85 male and 10 female) for individuals with a primary diagnosis of mental illness. In addition, Rowan View delivers medium secure care for men with a primary diagnosis of Learning Disability.
Responsibilities:
- Higher trainees lead on admission assessments under Consultant supervision
- Each Consultant is supported by resident doctors
- Close collaborative working with Low Secure Units, community forensic teams, step-down services, and other partner agencies
- Responsible Clinician at Rowan View Medium Secure Unit
- Case load of approximately 15 male inpatients
- Responsibilities for a defined case load at Rowan View
- Visiting forensic consultant to one of the local category B prisons (HMP Liverpool or HMP Altcourse)
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Requirements
- Full GMC registration
- MRCPsych qualification is desirable
- Candidates included in the Specialist Register for Forensic Psychiatry or within six months of entry to the Register are welcome to apply
- Must be approved under Section 12(2) of The Mental Health Act 1983
- Must have Approved Clinician (AC) status
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.
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.
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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 organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Additional Information
- Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Stephen Owens
- Job title: Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Director
- Email address: Stephen.Owens@merseycare.nhs.uk
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