Job overview

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals living with dementia?

Join us at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of specialist mental health care.

Based at Hartley Hospital, a modern, purpose-built facility dedicated to older adults’ mental health, you will lead a skilled and compassionate multi-disciplinary outpatient team within our Young Onset Dementia Service.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide expert clinical care to service users referred for specialist cognitive assessments.
• Lead on diagnostic formulation, treatment planning, and ongoing management to enhance quality of life.
• Collaborate with a wide range of professionals to deliver truly holistic, person-centred care.
• Contribute to service development and innovation in a supportive and forward-thinking Trust.

Why Join Us?

• Work in a modern, well-resourced environment designed to support both patients and staff.
• Be part of a Trust that values compassion, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional development, research, and leadership.

This is more than a clinical role—it’s a chance to be part of a service that is transforming lives and setting new standards in dementia care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the Responsible Clinician for patients in their caseload within the Young Onset Dementia service. There are allocated GP surgeries for each caseload within the service and these are allocated to ensure equity in terms of number of referrals. In line with New Ways of Working, the post holder will provide a consultative, supervisory and supportive role to the multidisciplinary team’s work. They will take an active part in the clinical work of the team and a lead role in the development of the service. The post holder will be expected to provide leadership to the Team whose role is to provide assessment, management and support to people who under the Young Onset Dementia service. Practitioners within the team will support access to services in a timely manner, as well as ensure arrangements are in place to enhance smooth pathways between primary care and secondary services. The post holder will be enabled to work in a consultative manner, being accessible to team members, GP and primary care staff, patients and carers, for the provision of expert advice and interventions in a timely manner. The post holder will operate within multi-disciplinary integrated and co-located teams, which including Health staff and Social services staff. The post holder will be expected to be part of the allocation procedure within the team and be responsive and flexible to the needs of the team.

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.