Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Consultant Psychiatrist - Windsor CMHT
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Consultant Psychiatrist - Windsor CMHT
Applications are invited for 1 full-time (10PAs + 10% R&R) Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Windsor Community Mental Health Team.
At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery, and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.
The Trust is focused on driving change and innovation by supporting and enhancing the leadership role of our senior clinicians and this role would offer opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.
If successful in your application for this replacement full-time post (10 PAs), you will join a dynamic and dedicated multi-disciplinary team delivering high-quality assessment and treatment for adults with psychosis and other severe mental illnesses referred from linked general practices from the Windsor CMHT coverage.
This is an exciting time to be joining adult mental health services with the implementation of a new clinical model that is already yielding improvements in care throughout the pathway, supported by more effective team working with primary care and adult inpatient acute care colleagues.
- Be actively involved in the leadership, management, and decision-making within the Community Mental Health Team.
- Supervise and support team members who carry out assessments of patients referred to the team.
- Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for patients.
- Conduct patient reviews and lead Multidisciplinary reviews, CPA reviews, and multiprofessional team meetings.
- Contribute to the development of the service and be actively involved in the critical evaluation of its effectiveness over time.
- Ensure that management plans are clearly displayed in the medical records and undertake administrative duties associated with the care of the patient.
- Foster relationships between staff within each organisation, and with the local Clinical Commissioning Groups.
- To act as team responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
- To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and as required participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM).
- Maintain a high level of effective communication and work flexibly and cooperatively with other parts of the service including; inpatient units, other community mental health teams, specialist services, and primary care.
- Liaison with families / carers, other stakeholders, and interested parties.
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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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, and St Helens) and is 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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Olusegan Popoola
- Job title: Associate Clinical Director
- Email address: olusegun.popoola@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 473 0303
Dr Rebeca Martinez
Clinical Director
0151 479 3812
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