Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult Inpatients (Harrington Ward)
Location
Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/5/2025
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Description
The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the inpatient team on Harrington ward, at the Broadoak Unit in Liverpool. The post is one of three inpatient Consultants at Broadoak Unit. Harrington ward is a female general adult ward, with 17 patients.
Work is underway on a state of the art, purpose-built hospital in South Liverpool, which will replace Broadoak unit once completed. The post holder will move to the new unit once complete.
At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.
The Trust is focused on driving change and innovation by supporting and enhancing the leadership role of our senior clinicians and this role would offer opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.
Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for Harrington ward.
Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
To provide medical leadership to the team.
Liaise with carers.
The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with other services.
Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Hannah Ruth Job title: Associate Clinical Director Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0151 330 7208
Dr Nanda Dayalan
Clinical Director
01928 753175
Work is underway on a state of the art, purpose-built hospital in South Liverpool, which will replace Broadoak unit once completed. The post holder will move to the new unit once complete.
At Mersey Care we are passionate about mental health and wellbeing and delivering the best possible care for the people we serve. Quality, recovery and wellbeing are at the heart of everything that we do.
The Trust is focused on driving change and innovation by supporting and enhancing the leadership role of our senior clinicians and this role would offer opportunities for you to lead and develop excellent practice in the field.
Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for Harrington ward.
Carry out comprehensive psychiatric assessments and provide treatment for inpatients.
Support staff to manage psychiatric emergencies.
Conduct patient reviews and lead multidisciplinary ward reviews, CPA reviews and multi-professional meetings.
To be the responsible clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 (amended 2007) and carry out duties in accordance with the code of practice.
To provide verbal and written evidence to Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Manager’s hearings.
To carry out comprehensive Risk Assessments and participate in Trust’s risk management processes such as Health Risk Assessment and Management and Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement Meetings.
To provide medical leadership to the team.
Liaise with carers.
The post holder will be expected to maintain effective communication with other services.
Provide clinical/educational supervision to junior colleagues.
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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Hannah Ruth Job title: Associate Clinical Director Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0151 330 7208
Dr Nanda Dayalan
Clinical Director
01928 753175
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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