As a Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist working for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users' needs are met through the delivery of high quality care.
As a leader of the outpatient multi-disciplinary team at the Knowsley Later Life & Memory Service, you will manage the community mental health team and Memory service, providing clinical care to service users who have been referred for older adults mental health care and specialist cognitive assessment.
You will work closely with a wide range of clinical and professional disciplines in order to deliver holistic care by completing assessments of new referrals to the team, making formulations and managing their treatment in order to optimise the quality of life of the service users under your caseload.
The post holder will act as the Responsible Clinician for patients within their allocated caseload in the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. Caseloads are aligned to designated GP surgeries and allocated to ensure an equitable distribution of referrals and workload. The role involves providing clinical leadership, consultation, supervision and support to the multidisciplinary team, while actively contributing to patient assessment, treatment and care. The post holder will support timely access to services, promote effective pathways between primary and secondary care, and provide specialist advice to team members, GPs, patients and carers. Working within integrated Health and Social Care teams, they will contribute to service development, participate in allocation processes, and respond flexibly to the changing needs of the service to ensure the delivery of high-quality care.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.