Consultant Psychiatrist - Secure Learning Disability Inpatient Service
Location
Maghull, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/12/2025
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Description
The Consultant Psychiatrist will have responsibility for caseload of up to 20 inpatients at Aspen Wood Low Secure Unit.
This includes being 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.
As a Consultant Psychiatrist and Approved Clinician, you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care by providing a comprehensive psychiatric service to people with a Learning Disability in a secure inpatient service.
Fulfilling Responsible Clinician responsibility for inpatients within a secure inpatient service will be a major component of this post.
The post holder will have a flexible job plan.
The Consultant will provide direct clinical work including assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders. They will participate in regular MDT meetings, CPA reviews, MAPPA, safeguarding, risk reviews and providing clinical leadership and Responsible Clinician role.
The post holder will be expected to liaise with colleagues in other services or divisions within the Trust to support people with Forensic LD accessing other local and remotely located services.
The Consultant will undertake statutory responsibilities under the MHA, MCA and Consent to Treatment.
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]
This includes being 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.
As a Consultant Psychiatrist and Approved Clinician, you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care by providing a comprehensive psychiatric service to people with a Learning Disability in a secure inpatient service.
Fulfilling Responsible Clinician responsibility for inpatients within a secure inpatient service will be a major component of this post.
The post holder will have a flexible job plan.
The Consultant will provide direct clinical work including assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders. They will participate in regular MDT meetings, CPA reviews, MAPPA, safeguarding, risk reviews and providing clinical leadership and Responsible Clinician role.
The post holder will be expected to liaise with colleagues in other services or divisions within the Trust to support people with Forensic LD accessing other local and remotely located services.
The Consultant will undertake statutory responsibilities under the MHA, MCA and Consent to Treatment.
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]
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