Job summary
- Main area
- Speciality Doctor
- Grade
- Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 350-MHC7250907
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Knowsley CYPMHS Children and Young People Wellbeing Hub, Knowsley Resource and Recovery Centre
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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
As a Speciality Doctor you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high quality care through multidisciplinary team with support and supervision of consultant psychiatrist.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will support the multidisciplinary team as speciality Doctor to offer assessment and management to children and young people with complex mental disorders. You will be working in multidisciplinary and multiagency environment.
You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team to deliver excellent care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to provide Psychiatric/Medical expertise and where appropriate advise to colleagues. Some of the core clinical work the post holder is expected to provide include:
-Participation in initial, emergency response and partnership assessments and management.
-Participating in consultations with clinicians and medical team within the team and also with other agencies.
-Participating in duty or emergency rota with clinicians and psychiatrist within the team.
-Reviewing patients prescribed medications and completing repeat prescriptions as required.
The post holder will also be expected to contribute to risk assessment and care management of patients they have reviewed through an understanding and implementation of the Children’s Act, Mental Capacity and Mental Health Acts where appropriate in liaison with other agencies.
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
The post holder will be expected to agree a job plan with the Clinical Director, CAMHS on taking up the post. There may be some flexibility to allow a suitable candidate to be involved in some academic and research interests.
The 10 programmed activity job plan will include:
• Out-patient reviews, leadership, supervision to team staff and contributing to MDT meetings
• Support to trainees
• Undertaking mental health act assessments
• Administration, audit and training as appropriate
- Attendance at Continuing Professional Development meetings and mandatory training events.
1, Training duties
The post holder will be expected to support and work with team colleagues and as well as supporting and teaching medical student and occasional teaching to other professionals on the team. There is an expectation to attend and contribute to the post-graduate teaching for trainees on Tuesday morning
2. Clinical governance and quality assurance
The post holder is expected to participate in Trust clinical governance and is responsible for ensuring that standards are adhered to in their team, through regular clinical audit. Service evaluation and patient feedback should be a regular part of the team’s duties in order to plan for future service development.
3. Quality improvement
The postholder will work with team in a way that supports the development of a culture of continuous improvement and learning. They will utilise a quality improvement approach to think systemically about complex problems, develop potential change ideas and test these in practice using a systematic QI methodology.
The postholder will empower their teams to resolve local issues on a daily basis using the tools and method of quality improvement without staff having to seek permission.
They will also promote awareness and understanding of quality improvement, and shares learning and successes from quality improvement work.
4. General duties
To manage, appraise and give professional supervision to junior doctors as agreed with consultant colleagues and the clinical director and in accordance with the Trust’s personnel policies and procedures. This may include assessing competences under the Modernising Medical Careers framework.
• To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients, including recording clinical activity accurately and comprehensively
• To participate in service and business planning activity for the locality and, as appropriate, for the whole mental health service.
- To participate in annual appraisal for speciality doctors.
• To maintain professional registration with the General Medical Council, Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval, and to abide by professional codes of conduct.
• To participate annually in a job plan review with the clinical manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation.
• To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services, and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.
• To comply with the Trust’s agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Full registration with General Medical Council
- Ability to gain Section 12 (2) Approval
Desirable criteria
- Section 12 (2) Approval
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- MbChb, MBBS or equivalent
- Completion of core training or 3 years post-graduate experience in Psychiatry.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and in community settings
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of CAMHS Team working
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good Communication skills
- Knowledge of mental health legislation
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and use of IT systems
Research and Audit
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of the research process within clinical services
- Evidence of audit competency
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in research / publication in peer-review journals
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Commitment to ongoing education and training
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching
Managment
Essential criteria
- Provision of clinical leadership in a multi-disciplinary team
Skills
Essential criteria
- Diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Excellent verbal, non verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to manage patients with complex problems, under supervision from the consultant.
Disposition
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a responsive multi-professional service
- Ability to work with non-clinical colleagues including service users and carers in service development
Personal Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Able to undertake local travel to undertake duties of the post.
- Capable of independent travel
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
- Dawn Mcloughlin
- Job title
- Deputy Medical Workforce Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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