Consultant Psychiatrist in Learning Disability

We looking to appoint a Consultant in Learning Disability to a post comprising of a small community caseload and an inpatient unit.

The post holder would be RC for Byron Ward inpatient unit, based at Hollins Park Hospital and also a small community caseload of 75-80 patients based out of Norris Green Hub in Liverpool.

Post is supported by MDT team and junior doctors.

We are looking for a committed doctor who is keen to work to develop services and improve patient care. We will be relocating to a new inpatient facility and their leadership will be vital in the running of the new unit., The LD services in Liverpool have a 9 bed in patient unit (Byron Ward, based at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington), a 5 bed respite unit in Central Liverpool called Wavertree Bungalow and community LD services that are based at Norris Green Hub.

The post holder will have RC responsibility for patients on the Byron Ward and a small community patch in Liverpool (L15/16/17/18/19/24/25/26/27). The area covered is south and central Liverpool which has areas of deprivation as well as affluence. Post holder will be based at Norris Green hub where his/her medical secretary and Nurse Practitioners are also based.

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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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.

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