Specialty Doctor - Adult In-Patients 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.
Main duties of the job
* Support the Consultant Psychiatrist providing medical input for patients across Albert and Brunswick 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.
* Provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager's hearings.
* 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.
* Provide medical leadership to the team.
* Liaise with carers.
* Maintain effective communication with other services.
* Provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues.
About us
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job responsibilities
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 percent 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 and participation in the training of other disciplines.
Providing educational supervision of trainees and other disciplines.
Taking part in continuing medical education within statutory limits.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
* Additional clinical qualifications.
Transport
* Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
* Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
* Approved under Section 12 or able to achieve 3 months of appointment.
* Minimum 3 years experience working in psychiatry.
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.
* 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.
* Ability to work and lead team.
* Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
* Participated in Continuous professional development.
* Participated in research or service evaluation.
* Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
* Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
* 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: awards, prizes.
* Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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