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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn McLoughlin Job title: Deputy Medical Workforce Lead Email address:
[email protected]
