Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A large healthcare provider in North West England is seeking a Specialty Doctor to join the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team. The role involves delivering high-quality, person-centred care for individuals in acute mental health crises. The position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic, multidisciplinary team dedicated to reducing hospital admissions while providing community-based therapeutic interventions.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering high-quality, person-centred care during acute mental health crises.
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team environment.
• Proven track record in crisis intervention and treatment planning.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical care, leadership, and decision-making within the CRHT.
• Deliver timely responses to referrals to ensure early intervention.
• Act as a gatekeeper for hospital and crisis bed admissions.

Skills

Expert clinical care

Leadership

Crisis resolution

Collaboration with families and carers

Job description

Role Overview

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. Additional Sites: The Brooker Centre (Halton) & Knowsley Resource Centre (Knowsley).

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 meeting appropriate criteria for referral being met. There is an expectation that you will provide supervision to the NMP in the team and also to the junior medical staff. This will be incorporated into the job plan.

About Mersey Care

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.