Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist - Rathbone Low Secure Unit

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A public health trust in Liverpool is seeking a qualified clinician to manage male inpatients in a multidisciplinary mental health team. Responsibilities include assessment, management, and overseeing treatment while collaborating with various agencies including the Ministry of Justice. Applicants must hold a medical degree and possess knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983.

Benefits

Guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants

Consideration of flexible working requests

Qualifications

• Must manage a caseload of 16 male inpatients with mental health needs.
• Required to participate in weekly referral meetings.
• Should have knowledge of Mental Health Act protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessments for various services, including courts and prisons.
• Act as Responsible Clinician for detained patients under Restriction Orders.
• Organize and manage MDT meetings and patient discharge planning.

Skills

Clinical responsibility

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Assessment and management

Mental Health Act knowledge

Education

Medical degree

Approved Clinician status

Job description

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

The successful candidate will

• Join a well-established multidisciplinary team (MDT) with strong medical support.
• Work alongside a substantive consultant colleague, each managing 16 inpatients.
• Be supported by a full-time substantive staff grade doctor, a core trainee, and a full-time Physician Associate.
• Maintain clinical responsibility for patients throughout their journey within the unit; the post holder will act as Responsible Clinician within a multidisciplinary team and lead on the management of a caseload of 16 male inpatients. This includes preadmission planning, MDT meetings, CPA reviews and discharge planning, with liaison to other agencies including the Ministry of Justice, police, probation, social care and other mental health services. They will exercise statutory responsibilities for patients detained under Restriction Orders, including completing statutory reports to the Ministry of Justice; for non-restricted and restricted patients they will provide reports regarding Consent to Treatment and reports to, and attendance at, Tribunals and Managers' Reviews.
• Lead on the assessment of individuals referred for admission from a variety of sources including other secure services, general adult services, courts or prisons; participate in weekly referral meetings and panel meetings to review referrals for admission to low secure and forensic step-down beds across the Merseyside and Cheshire region.
• Participate in service management, attend clinical team meetings and other service-related meetings; provide supervision to junior doctors and/or Physician Associate working in the service.
• Manage the care and treatment of 16 male in-patients within the LSU (across Allerton and Childwall wards) including preadmission planning, MDT meetings, CPA reviews and discharge planning; liaise with Ministry of Justice, police, probation, social care and other mental health services; lead on assessments for admission.
• Be the lead on assessment of individuals referred for admission from various sources; the service receives 2–3 referrals for assessment for admission per month; act as Responsible Clinician under the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended) for patients detained under Restriction Orders and complete statutory reports; provide reports for Consent to Treatment and attend Tribunals and Managers' Reviews; be approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 for recommending admission and be an Approved Clinician.

Other information

Please see the job description for full details on the role.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who clearly demonstrate how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. If you would like your application considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme, you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process, please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close vacancies when a minimum number of applications has been received. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. The Trust expects post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role in Children’s & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service; you will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain 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 with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate unless there is a conviction under previous details that must be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship by assessing themselves against criteria on GOV.UK website. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. Rathbone Low Secure Unit provides specialist forensic mental health care for detained male patients and forms part of the secure services pathway within Mersey Care. Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West.