Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry (CRHT)
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About the Role
Mersey Care NHSFT is looking for an outstanding candidate for this attractive permanent position as CRHT Consultant Psychiatrist to work in Mid Mersey St Helens and Knowsley CRHT which is based at the Harry Blackman House, St Helens. This role is to provide excellent clinical care to service users, clinical leadership and expertise within our highly skilled and committed multidisciplinary team.
There are satellite bases across other boroughs in Warrington, Halton and Knowsley from where services are also delivered. Some outpatient clinics may be held at satellite base in Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre (KRRC) that also has Coniston Inpatient Ward (Male), Grasmere Ward (Female), Rydal Ward (Old Age) and Knowsley Recovery Team.
The post holder will regularly attend the Trust-wide Tuesday morning Local Academic postgraduate (LAP) programme (Local MRCPsych teaching) currently online via Teams as part of their weekly SPA sessions.
The post holder will work closely with the other consultant colleagues in CRHT and be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. They will be encouraged to pursue education and experience for their professional development.
The post holder will be expected to take a lead in ongoing developments in CRHT and support the Trust’s strategic aims of delivering “Perfect Care”.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide excellent clinical care to service users.
- Offer clinical leadership and expertise within the multidisciplinary team.
- Regularly attend Trust-wide Tuesday morning Local Academic postgraduate (LAP) programme.
- Collaborate closely with other consultant colleagues in CRHT.
- Lead ongoing developments in CRHT.
- Support the Trust’s strategic aims of delivering “Perfect Care”.
Main Duties
- Patient reviews and home visits to see urgent or emergency reviews for patients open to the team.
- Management of complex cases and consultative advice on patient care to other team members.
- Clinical leadership of team by participating in team MDTs to discuss allocations of patients and dispense responsibilities under that role for such patients as per the MHA Code of Practice.
- Care plan and treatment formulation, guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
- Liaison and collaborative working with other services/agencies.
- Mental Health Act implementation.
- On-call Rota.
- Multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership working.
- Maintain contemporaneous documentation electronically on patient records.
- Timely communications with primary care colleagues.
- Maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out clinical assessments.
- Ensure compliance with our clinical governance framework.
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About Us
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.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Qaiser Javed
- Job title: Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
- Email address: Qaiser.Javed@merseycare.nhs.uk
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