Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Dee Ward)

Merseycare; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking NHS trust as a Consultant Psychiatrist, where you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality mental health care. This position offers the opportunity to work within a supportive team, providing comprehensive assessments and treatment for inpatients. You'll be part of an innovative organization committed to perfect care, ensuring that every patient receives the best possible support. With a focus on collaboration and continuous improvement, this role allows you to make a meaningful impact in the lives of patients while enjoying a healthy work-life balance in the vibrant North West region.

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Approved clinician status or able to achieve within 3 months.

Responsibilities

• Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
• Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment.
• Lead multidisciplinary ward reviews and manage psychiatric emergencies.

Skills

Excellent clinical skills

Oral and written communication skills

Ability to manage clinical complexity

Decision making based on evidence

Knowledge in specialty

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Higher degree in medical education or clinical research

Additional clinical qualifications

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Dee Ward)

Consultant

Main area: General Adult Psychiatry

Grade: Consultant

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref: 350-MED6338008-D

Site: Clock View Hospital

Town: Liverpool

Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 Plus 10% R&R payment (non contractual) and 1% on call

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 06/04/2025 23:59

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 ethnic minorities, 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.

Job overview

The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the inpatient team at Clock View Hospital, Liverpool. The post is newly created, which will be available due to the reconfiguration of the medical model at Clock View Hospital. The post will be one of four general adult inpatient Consultants at Clock View Hospital. The post holder would be responsible for 17 patients on Dee ward, which is a female acute ward.

Clock View Hospital is a purpose-built adult mental health facility based in Walton, Liverpool, opened in 2015. There are 3 acute adult wards namely: Alt (mixed ward), Dee (female), and Morris (male). Clock view also houses Newton ward which is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and an old age ward, Irwell.

The post currently attracts a 10% R&R payment which will be reviewed next year.

Main duties of the job

1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews, and multi-professional meetings.
5. To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
7. To 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.
8. To provide medical leadership to the team.
9. Liaise with carers.
10. To maintain effective communication with other services.
11. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for 17 patients on Dee ward.
2. Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
3. Support ward based staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
4. Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
5. To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
6. To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
7. To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management Meetings (H-RAMM) and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA) Meetings.
8. To provide medical leadership to the inpatient team.
9. Liaise with families / carers.
10. Liaise with aspects of the Criminal Justice System regarding patients.
11. Liaise with other stakeholders and interested parties.
12. The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with other services, including in-patient and community mental health teams, and primary care.
13. Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
14. The post holder would be expected to be approved as a Responsible Clinician or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
15. Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching.
16. Participation in the training of other disciplines.
17. Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
18. Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
19. Leads and manages a team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
• Additional clinical qualifications.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Ability to work and lead team.
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

FULFIL YOUR POTENTIAL AND SPREAD YOUR WINGS WITH MERSEY CARE

At Mersey Care, our commitment to ‘perfect care’ lies at the heart of everything we do, a person-centred care that starts with you. It’s a pledge to create an environment and staff support that will enable you to do the best job you can possibly do, to be the best you can possibly be.

You’ll be joining one of the most innovative and progressive NHS trusts in the country. One that offers specialist inpatient and community services to support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. We are the founding member of the Zero Suicide Alliance, and one of only three Trusts in the country which delivers high secure mental health care.

You’ll have a home in the North West of England where your work/life balance is respected and working from sites easily commutable from Liverpool, Manchester, North Wales and Cheshire with many roles operating a hybrid working system.