Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry (CRHT)

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry to lead the Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team in St Helens. The ideal candidate will provide clinical leadership, participate in care planning and ensure high-quality service delivery while managing complex cases. This role offers the chance to make impactful contributions in a supportive and forward-thinking environment dedicated to perfecting mental health care, backed by a commitment to staff and service user collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Annual appraisal and CPD opportunities

Support for professional registration

Qualifications

• Experience in providing dynamic leadership in mental health services.
• Ability to conduct patient reviews and make home visits.
• Participate in MDTs to discuss patient allocations.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical management of complex cases and provide consultative advice.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.
• Document and maintain accurate patient records electronically.

Skills

Clinical Leadership

Mental Health Act Implementation

Patient Care Management

Education

Mental Health Act Section 12(2) Status

Professional Registration with General Medical Council

Tools

Rio Electronic Health Record System

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Psychiatry (CRHT)

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The Trust is seeking to recruit a full time Consultant for St Helens/Knowsley CRHT Mid Mersey and we are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive colleague to provide dynamic leadership to the service and the Trust as a whole. This is a new full-time post based in Harry Blackman House Peasley Cross Hospital. The post holder will work collaboratively with our Operational Manager, Clinical Service Manager to provide leadership and clinical expertise to the CRHT and ensure we deliver an excellent, responsive, and high-quality service.

Clinical Duties

• This will consist of patient reviews and home Visits to see urgent or emergency reviews for patients open to the team although the bulk of cases will be reviewed on site.
• Management of complex cases and consultative advice on patient care to other team members.
• Clinical leadership of team by participating in team MDTs to discuss allocations of patients and dispense the responsibilities under that Role for such patients as per the MHA Code of Practice.
• Care plan and treatment formulation, guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
• Liaison and collaborative working with other services/agencies.
• Mental Health Act implementation.
• Maintain Contemporaneous documentation electronically on patient records and also timely communications with primary care colleagues.
  
  

General Duties

• The post holder would be expected to work on Rio which is the Trust’s electronic health record system. The post holder would be required to record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively in a timely fashion. The post holder would undertake an annual appraisal, CPD and maintain professional registration with General Medical Council. It is essential that the post holder has Mental Health Act Section 12(2) status.
• The post holder would participate in annual job plan review with the Clinical Director.
• To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
  
  

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 Manager Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

• Industries

  Health, Wellness & Fitness

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