Specialty Doctor in Old Age Psychiatry | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

As a Specialty Psychiatry Doctor 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 member of the outpatient multi-disciplinary team at Hartley Hospital, you will work in a state of the art mental health facility, providing clinical care to older adults who require specialist mental healthcare. You will work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines in order to deliver holistic care by completing assessments for cognitive impairment and the full range of functional mental disorders. This will provide a wide range of clinical experience to help the post holder to develop their clinical knowledge with a view to possibly taking up a training post in Old Age Psychiatry subsequently.

The post holder will be responsible for completing new assessments of service users referred in to the Older Adults community service based at the Hartley Hospital with queries over cognitive impairment as well as functional mental health issues. They will conduct diagnostic clinics in which diagnoses are explained and management options discussed. This will occur under the supervision of Consultant Old Age Psychiatrists based within the service. In addition, the post holder will support the team in ensuring that service users' prescriptions are accurate and updated as well as providing clinical advice and being an integral member of the multidisciplinary team., There are well established and fully staffed community mental health teams for older adults in the Trust across the division, with Memory Services being well established. In addition, there are well resourced general hospital liaison services for older adults and adults within three acute Hospital Trusts, namely the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Aintree University Hospital and Southport District Hospital. There are a range of other mental health services provided by Mersey Care including a 2 hour Urgent Community Response service, Armed Forces Community Services, CMAGIC (Cheshire & Merseyside Adult Gender Identity Collaborative), Criminal Justice Liaison & Diversion Service, Drug & Alcohol Services including the Hope Centre which offers inpatient detoxification programs, Learning Disabilities Services, Maternal Mental Health Services including a Specialist Perinatal Service, Mental Health Triage Car Services, a Psychotherapy & Personality Disorder Hub, Student
Mental Health Services and The Life Rooms. There are Neuropsychiatry and Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services based at the Walton Centre on the Aintree University Hospital site.

Foundation Trainees are posted on Dunes ward (1 x F1, 1 x F2 doctor) and are available to complete daily tasks and reviews for the inpatients as well as the postholder.

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.

Hartley Hospital was officially opened by Princess Anne in July 2021. It is a £21 million pound state of the art mental health facility and was named after the local jam-making family and philanthropist Christiana Hartley. It replaces the Boothroyd Unit and Hesketh Centre which previously provided mental health services in the Southport area.

The hospital consists of 44 en-suite bedrooms and features inner garden courtyards, a café, two gyms, a family visiting room and multi-faith area. Hartley Hospital takes a lot of features from Mersey Care's award-winning Clock View Hospital situated in the Walton area of Liverpool.

Hartley Hospital accommodates inpatient services for General Adult mental health services in the form of Pine ward which is a 20 bedded mixed adult acute ward and Dunes ward which is a 20 bedded, primarily functional, older adults mental health ward. Community mental health teams for both General Adult and Older Adult services are based upstairs in Hartley Hospital. Irwell ward is a 20 bedded functional older adult ward based at Clock View Hospital in Walton, North Liverpool. Fern ward is a 17 bedded dementia ward based in Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool., There is a population of approximately 123,729 people in the Southport & Formby area, with 27.4% of this figure being accounted for by people over the age of 65 (33,902). Central Southport has the largest population compared with the other localities in Southport & Formby. Formby has the smallest population overall. Central Southport has the highest percentage of under 20s in the area and Formby has proportionally less under 20s compared to Southport.