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Trust Grade Doctor in Old Age Psychiatry
| Posting date: | 22 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £52,530.00 to £82,400.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52530.00 - £82400.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2024 |
| Location: | Southport, PR8 6PL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-24-1348 |
Summary
Dunes ward is a 20 bedded primarily functional older adult complex care ward at the Hartley Hospital in Southport. It caters to functional inpatients from the Southport and Formby areas primarily but also can accept admissions from Liverpool and other areas of the Trust to include Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington and Halton. While the ward is intended for functional patients over the age of 70, several younger adult patients under the age of 70 are admitted to the ward as well. 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 caf, two gyms, a family visiting room and multi-faith area. Hartley Hospital takes a lot of features from Mersey Cares award-winning Clock View Hospital situated in the Walton area of Liverpool. Dunes ward requires a specialty doctor to work within the multidisciplinary team in an enthusiastic and collaborative manner in order to provide a high quality service for older adult inpatients who require mental and physical health care. 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. 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 are also well established and fully staffed community mental health teams for older adults in the Trust across the division. Memory Services are also 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. Inpatient Old Age Psychiatrists: Dunes Ward, Hartley Hospital, Southport Dr Sarada Kodali Irwell Ward, Clock View, Walton, Liverpool Dr Sumanth Kumar Fern Ward, Leigh Moss Hospital, Liverpool Dr Anna Richman There have been an average of 7.1 new admissions per month over the past eight months in 2024, with an average of 2 per month being for patients under the age of 70. The minimum number of admissions during this time was four and the maximum was 9. During the same period there has been an average of 6.75 discharges per month with the minimum number being 2 and the maximum being 11. Bed occupancy of the ward is usually full (all 20 beds occupied). Over the past six months the average length of stay of patients on Dunes ward is 60 days and the number of discharges from the ward in the same period is 53. In the past six months there have been three patients identified as being delayed discharges, totalling 81 days of delay.