As a Specialty Doctor you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high quality care through multidisciplinary team with support and supervision of consultant psychiatrist.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will support the multidisciplinary team as specialty Doctor to offer assessment and management to children and young people with complex mental disorders. You will be working in multidisciplinary and multiagency environment.
Core Clinical Work
* Participation in initial, emergency response and partnership assessments and management.
* Participating in consultations with clinicians and medical team within the team and also with other agencies.
* Participating in duty or emergency rota with clinicians and psychiatrist within the team.
* Reviewing patients prescribed medications and completing repeat prescriptions as required.
The post holder will also be expected to contribute to risk assessment and care management of patients they have reviewed through an understanding and implementation of the Children’s Act, Mental Capacity and Mental Health Acts where appropriate in liaison with other agencies.
Additional Duties
* Out-patient reviews, leadership, supervision to team staff and contributing to MDT meetings
* Support to trainees
* Undertaking mental health act assessments
* Administration, audit and training as appropriate
* Attendance at Continuing Professional Development meetings and mandatory training events.
* Support and work with team colleagues and also supporting and teaching medical student and occasional teaching to other professionals on the team. There is an expectation to attend and contribute to the post-graduate teaching for trainees on Tuesday morning.
Clinical Governance and Quality Assurance
* Participation in Trust clinical governance and is responsible for ensuring that standards are adhered to in their team, through regular clinical audit. Service evaluation and patient feedback should be a regular part of the team’s duties in order to plan for future service development.
Quality Improvement
* Work with team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning. They will utilise a quality improvement approach to think systemically about complex problems, develop potential change ideas and test these in practice using a systematic QI methodology.
* Empower their teams to resolve local issues on a daily basis using the tools and method of quality improvement without staff having to seek permission.
* Promote awareness and understanding of quality improvement, and share learning and successes from quality improvement work.
General Duties
* To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior doctors as agreed with consultant colleagues and the clinical director and in accordance with the Trust’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
* To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients, including recording clinical activity accurately and comprehensively.
* To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
* To participate in annual appraisal for speciality doctors.
* To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
* To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
* To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.
* To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Nov 2025.
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