Specialty Doctor

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 78,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in St Helens is seeking a Specialty Doctor to join their Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. The successful candidate will deliver high-quality mental health care, provide clinical leadership, and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary environment. Applicants should possess GMC registration and experience in mental health. This role offers a chance to make a difference in acute mental health crises while promoting an inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Supportive work environment

Opportunity for professional development

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in providing clinical care within mental health.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience in managing complex patient cases.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical care and leadership within the CRHT.
• Deliver timely responses to referrals and ensure early intervention.
• Act as a gatekeeper for all hospital admissions.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Crisis intervention

Therapeutic interventions

Education

Professional registration with the General Medical Council

Mental Health Act Section 12(2) status

Job description

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.

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. 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 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.

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 meetings and when appropriate criteria for referral are met.
• Provide supervision to the NMP in the team and to junior medical staff, incorporated into the job plan.
• Conduct patient reviews and home visits for urgent or emergency reviews; the bulk of cases are reviewed on site.
• Manage complex cases and provide advice on patient care to other team members.
• Provide clinical leadership by participating in team MDTs to discuss allocations of patients and dispense responsibilities as per the MHA Code of Practice.
• Develop care plans and treatment formulations, providing guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
• Act as liaison and collaborate with other services and agencies.
• Implement the Mental Health Act.
• Engage in multi‑disciplinary, multi‑agency and partnership working.
• Participate in annual appraisal for specialty doctor.
• Maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and abide by professional codes of conduct.
• Participate annually in a job plan review with the line manager.
• Comply with the Trust's agreed policies.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Mental Health Act Section 12(2) status (desired).
• Professional registration with the General Medical Council.

Application Process

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 demonstrate clearly 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 in the person specification. If you would like your application to be 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 any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role and work 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 (01516761452 or email [email protected]) 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 the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website – https://www.gov.uk/check‑uk‑visa.

Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.