Consultant Psychiatrist in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum, plus 10% R&R (non contractual) and on call supplement |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 July 2025 |
| Location: | Warrington / Prescot, WA2 9TN |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7300728/350-MED7300728 |
Summary
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality mental health care to children and young people? We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to join our dynamic and supportive multidisciplinary team.
In this pivotal role, you will:
• Provide clinical leadership and oversight to a skilled multidisciplinary team.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop tailored management plans for children and young people with complex mental health needs.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-agency environment to ensure holistic and coordinated care.
• Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
You will be part of a highly motivated team committed to delivering outstanding care and making a meaningful difference in the lives of young people and their families.
If you are a compassionate, forward-thinking clinician who thrives in a collaborative setting, we would love to hear from you.
The post holder will work with a full multidisciplinary team, currently consisting of Team Manager, Clinical Lead, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (Band 7), CAMHS Consultant Psychiatrist, Senior CAMHS Practitioners (Band 6), CAMHS Practitioners, Assistant Clinical Psychologist, and STR workers.
The service looks after children and adolescents up to the age of 18 years old in crisis with mental and behavioural disorders (depression, anxiety, OCD, psychotic illness, etc) and risk issues and other co-morbidities such as eating disorders, OCD, ADHD, ASD seen in similar patient population.
The post holder will get involved in delivering high quality care through two main arms namely the brief intervention pathway and home treatment pathway. The brief intervention pathway aims to intervene during mental health crisis for a up to two weeks following which onward referrals to local Tier 3 services, getting Tiers 1 & 2 services involved or stepping down to primary care could be considered depending on the mental health needs of the CYP.
The home treatment pathway engages CYP up to 12 weeks duration during which intensive community based treatment including admission avoidance (to Tier 4 services) will be the mainstay of intervention. The post holder will get ample opportunities to promote and enhance links with the local services (from Tiers 1 to 4).
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.
The post holder will be expected to agree a job plan with the Clinical Director, CAMHS on taking up the post. There will be opportunity 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, research and QI projects as appropriate
• Attendance at Continuing Professional Development meeting 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 consultant psychiatrist.
• 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.
This advert closes on Friday 1 Aug 2025