Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Prescot, England, United Kingdom

6/18/2025

As a Speciality Doctor you will be responsible for ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high quality care through multidisciplinary team with support and supervision of consultant psychiatrist.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will support the multidisciplinary team as speciality Doctor to offer assessment and management to children and young people with complex mental disorders. You will be working in multidisciplinary and multiagency environment.

You will enjoy working as part of a highly skilled and motivated team to deliver excellent care.

The Post Holder Will Be Expected To Provide Psychiatric/Medical Expertise And Where Appropriate Advise To Colleagues. Some Of The Core Clinical Work The Post Holder Is Expected To Provide Include

• Participation in initial, emergency response and partnership assessments and management.
• Participating in consultations with clinicians and medical team within the team and also with other agencies.
• Participating in duty or emergency rota with clinicians and psychiatrist within the team.
• Reviewing patients prescribed medications and completing repeat prescriptions as required.
  
  

The post holder will also be expected to contribute to risk assessment and care management of patients they have reviewed through an understanding and implementation of the Children’s Act, Mental Capacity and Mental Health Acts where appropriate in liaison with other agencies.

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]