Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult In-patients (Austen Ward)

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult In-patients (Austen Ward)Consultant

Main area: General Adult Psychiatry
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 350-MED6792408-B

Site: Hollins Park, Warrington
Salary: £105,504 - £139,882 10% R&R (non contractual) plus 1% on call
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/03/2025 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.

Job overview

The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the inpatient team on Austen ward, Hollins Park, Warrington. Austen ward is an all-male general adult ward, with 17 beds. There will be x2 junior doctors for the ward. These may be up to 3 depending on how the training posts are filled in each rotation. The post holder will have clinical supervisor responsibilities for the trainees on the Unit.

The post has become vacant because of the previous post holder retiring after 20+ years of service with the Trust. At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.

The Trust is focused on driving change and innovation by supporting and enhancing the leadership role of our senior clinicians and this role would offer opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.

Main duties of the job

• Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for all patients on Austen ward.
• Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
• Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
• Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
• To be the Responsible Clinician (RC) for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
• To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
• To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes.
• To provide medical leadership to the team.
• Liaise with carers.
• Maintain effective communication with other services.
• 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. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Person specificationQualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management.
• Additional clinical qualifications.

Eligibility

• 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 license 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.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• 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 AAC.
• 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.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• 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.

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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 who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email .

The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

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.

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