Specialty Doctor - Adult Inpatients Knowsley
The Trust is seeking a Specialty doctor in Psychiatry to work as part of the inpatient team at Knowsley. This is a permanent post, which will be available due to the reconfiguration of the medical model at Knowsley adult inpatient wards. The post holder would support the Consultants across two wards, Coniston and Grasmere units.
Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre has an adult mental health facility based on Whiston Hospital Site, Prescot. There are 2 acute adult wards namely: Coniston (Male ward), and Grasmere (Female). All wards across the Trust take admissions, as well as patient transfers.
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.
Support the Consultant Psychiatrist providing medical input for patients across Coniston and Grasmere wards.
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 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 such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
- To provide medical leadership to the team.
- Liaise with carers.
- To maintain effective communication with other services.
- Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues.
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.
The post holder would support the Consultants across two wards, Coniston \- 18 beds and Grasmere 15 beds.
On average there are approximately 4 admissions per week to Coniston ward with around 3 discharges. Grasmere ward have about 3 admissions and 2 discharges per week. About 50\-75 per cent of the admitted patients are detained at any given time and there is on average one Mental Health Review Tribunal hearing each week.
There is 1 Consultant Psychiatrist allocated to each ward. Each ward also has 1\-2 junior trainees.
The post holder would be expected to be approved under Section 12(2\) of the Mental Health Act 1983, or be willing to undertake training to obtain Section 12(2\) MHA and will be expected to renew this approval according to agreed procedures.
Participation in undergraduate and postgraduate clinical teaching. Participation in the training of other disciplines.
Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits
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