Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Psychiatry
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- 6 months (6 months fixed term post, with a view to extend to 12 months following review)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (PA's- 10, SPA- 2, DCC- 8)
- Job ref
- 350-MED7348744
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Clock View Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor – Adult Inpatients
Specialty Doctor
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and enthusiastic Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry to join our inpatient teams at Clock View Hospital. This is a fixed-term post supporting the Consultant Psychiatrists across two acute wards: Dee Ward (female) and Morris Ward (male).
About Clock View Hospital
Opened in 2015, Clock View is a modern, purpose-built adult mental health facility located in Walton, Liverpool. The hospital includes:
- Three acute adult wards: Alt (mixed), Dee (female), and Morris (male)
- Newton Ward – Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Irwell Ward – Older Adults Mental Health
All wards accept both direct admissions and patient transfers, offering a dynamic and collaborative working environment.
Why Join Us?
At Mersey Care, we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing. We are committed to delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care and supporting the communities we serve. Our values are rooted in compassion, innovation, and excellence.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to:
- Work closely with experienced Consultants and multidisciplinary teams
- Contribute to high standards of patient care and service development
- Take on leadership opportunities and help shape clinical practice
- Be part of a forward-thinking Trust that values continuous improvement and clinician-led innovation
If you are a motivated and compassionate doctor looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
· Support the Consultant Psychiatrist providing medical input for patients across Dee ward and Morris ward.
· 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work programme
It is envisaged that the post holder will work 10 programmed activities over 5 days. Following appointment there will be a meeting at no later than three months with the clinical manager to review and revise the job plan and objectives of the post holder. The overall split of the programmed activities is 8 to be devoted to direct clinical care and 2 to supporting professional activities. The timetable is indicative only. A formal job plan will be agreed between the post holder and associate medical director or clinical manager three months after commencing the post and at least annually thereafter.
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych
- Additional clinical qualifications.
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
- Minimum 3 years experience working in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Transport
Essential criteria
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative
Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Ability to work in 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
Desirable criteria
- 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, presentations and publications
- Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Bentley
- Job title
- Medical Workforce Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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