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Overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to join our inpatient team on Austen Ward, located at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington. Austen Ward is a 17-bed, all-male general adult inpatient unit, supported by a team of up to three junior doctors. The successful candidate will take on clinical supervision responsibilities for these trainees, contributing to their development and the delivery of high quality care. This post has become available following the retirement of the previous Consultant, who served the Trust with distinction for over 20 years. At Mersey Care, we are passionate about mental health, recovery, and wellbeing. We are committed to delivering the highest standards of care and placing quality and compassion at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to support and empower our senior clinicians to lead innovation and drive change. This role offers exciting opportunities to shape clinical practice, contribute to service development, and play a key role in enhancing patient outcomes. 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.
Responsibilities
* Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for all patients on Austen ward.
* Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
* Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
* Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
* Serve as the Responsible Clinician (RC) for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
* Provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
* Carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
* Provide medical leadership to the team.
* Liaise with families/carers.
* Maintain effective communication with other services.
* Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
* Be part of the daily consultant on‑call rota for Mid Mersey. Availability supplement is 1% – Band B low frequency, low intensity.
* When on‑call, cancel routine work during normal working hours to prioritise unpredictable/emergency calls.
* Inpatient care for service users within Mid Mersey region is provided by Consultants working across multiple sites including Peasley Cross Hospital, St Helens, Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington, Brooker Centre, Runcorn and Knowsley Resource Centre at Whiston.
* All wards across the Trust take admissions, as well as patient transfers.
* Responsible for up to 17 patients on Austen ward; approx. 4 admissions per week with around 3 discharges; 50–70% of admitted patients are detained at any given time; on average one Mental Health Review Tribunal hearing each week.
Clinical Leadership
* Participation in business planning for the locality and, as appropriate, contribution to the broader strategic and planning work of the Trust.
* Lead the improvement of the quality of care within the team and contribute to improving quality across the system.
Teaching and Training
* Teaching commitments of post, and support in place to achieve.
* Trust‑wide teaching arrangements.
* Teaching arrangements in locality/team.
* Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical training.
* Participation in the training of other staff.
* Providing educational supervision of trainees and other staff.
* Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
* DME is Dr Indira Vinjamuri.
* Mersey Care has specific links with Liverpool Medical School and Edge Hill University Medical School.
Clinical Governance
* Expected contribution to clinical governance and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards.
* Participation in clinical audit and other local assurance.
* Participation in service/team evaluation and the planning of future service developments.
Additional Requirements
* Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website (https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa).
* The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work in Children’s & Young People’s services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. Enrolment is required for a fee of £16 per year and maintenance of registration.
* Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email [email protected]) once they have completed their DBS application form.
* Applicants requiring reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process may email [email protected] to ensure measures can be put in place to support them.
* New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
* Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Application Information
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