Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry (CRHT)
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Consultant Role - St Helens/Knowsley CRHT Mid Mersey
The Trust is seeking to recruit a full-time Consultant for St Helens/Knowsley CRHT Mid Mersey. We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive colleague to provide dynamic leadership to the service and the Trust as a whole.
This is a new full-time post based in Harry Blackman House, Peasley Cross Hospital. The post holder will work collaboratively with our Operational Manager, Clinical Service Manager to provide leadership and clinical expertise to the CRHT and ensure we deliver an excellent, responsive, and high-quality service.
Clinical Duties
- Patient reviews and home visits to see urgent or emergency reviews for patients open to the team, with the bulk of cases reviewed on-site.
- Management of complex cases and consultative advice on patient care to other team members.
- Clinical leadership of the 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.
- Maintain contemporaneous documentation electronically on patient records and timely communications with primary care colleagues.
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General Duties
- Work on Rio, the Trust’s electronic health record system.
- Record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively in a timely fashion.
- Undertake an annual appraisal, CPD, and maintain professional registration with General Medical Council.
- Essential that the post holder has Mental Health Act Section 12(2) status.
- Participate in annual job plan review with the Clinical Director.
- Participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
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 also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
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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 Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Qaiser Javed
- Job Title: Clinical Director
- Email Address: qaiser.javed@merseycare.nhs.uk
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