Overview
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an outstanding Specialty Doctor to join our dynamic Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHT) in the Mid Mersey Division. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health crises, while working within a highly skilled and compassionate multidisciplinary team. The CRHT operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing intensive support to service users in the least restrictive environment. The team plays a vital role in reducing hospital admissions and supporting recovery at home.
Base: Harry Blackman House, St Helens
Additional Sites: The Brooker Centre (Halton) & Knowsley Resource Centre (Knowsley)
Responsibilities
* Provide expert clinical care, leadership, and decision-making within the CRHT.
* Deliver timely responses to referrals, ensuring early intervention and crisis resolution.
* Act as a gatekeeper for all hospital and crisis bed admissions within the local division.
* Facilitate early discharge from inpatient units through robust home treatment plans.
* Offer therapeutic interventions in the community, tailored to individual needs.
* Work collaboratively with families, carers, and referring professionals to ensure holistic care.
Case allocation is done following MDT meeting appropriate criteria for referral being met.
There is an expectation that you will provide supervision to the NMP in the team and also to the junior medical staff. This will be incorporated into the job plan.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Zoe Bentley Job title: Medical Workforce Lead Email: Zoe.Bentley@merseycare.nhs.uk
Job details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Health Care Provider
* Industries: Health, Wellness & Fitness
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