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.,

• 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.. 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.

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., 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.