Consultant Psychiatrist – Older Adults Inpatients (Irwell Ward)

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Full time
Location: Liverpool
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Job offered by: jobs24.co.uk
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As a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist working for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high quality care.

As a leader of the inpatient multi-disciplinary team at Irwell ward, Clock View Hospital, you will provide clinical care to older adults who require specialist inpatient care. You will work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines in order to deliver holistic care by completing assessments of new admissions to Irwell ward and managing their treatment and ensuring safe discharges back to the community. The post holder will be responsible for completing assessments and formulating treatment plans for service users admitted to Irwell ward from the community. Irwell ward is a 17 bedded functional older adult complex care ward at Clock View Hospital.

As a substantive Old Age Psychiatry Consultant on Irwell ward, you will work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team including Social Services, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, acute hospital medical specialties, and Primary Care. You will be the Responsible Clinician for patients admitted to Irwell ward, which will involve managing patients who have been detained under the Mental Health Act. Therefore, the post holder will require a sound knowledge of Mental Health Act law, including completing relevant mental health act documentation and capacity assessments as required.

The post holder will be expected to lead the multidisciplinary team at Irwell ward in a supportive manner to foster positive working relationships. The post holder will complete ward rounds throughout the week and provide clear communication and documentation in relation to assessment outcomes and management plans. They will also be expected to provide leadership and training to trainee doctors and medical students placed on Irwell ward. Additionally, they will take an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the 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, as well as 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.

£105,504 to £139,882 a year plus 10% R&R (non contractual) & 1% on call.

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