Community Forensic Learning Disability Consultant

Consultant Psychiatrist With The Specialist Community Forensic Team

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 and Forensic needs in Cheshire and Merseyside.

The psychiatry role includes Approved Clinician provision where a person is subject to Conditional Discharge or a Community Treatment Order under the Mental Health Act or where there is an identified need. This is anticipated to equate to a case load of approximately 20 people. The Approved Clinician will be required to have prescriber function as well for the team besides offering specialist assessment (including risk assessments) and management of patients on their caseload.

Working both autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will carry out Consultant Psychiatrist and Approved Clinician duties.

Fulfilling the Community Responsible Clinician responsibility for patients accepted into the service will be a major component of this post.

The post holder will have a flexible job plan to provide outpatient or community clinics and home visits. There are no inpatient duties associated with the post.

The Consultant will undertake statutory responsibilities under the MHA, MCA and DoLS and Consent to Treatment.

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 role will include outpatient or community clinics, emergency home visits, liaising with forensic support services, attending professional meetings and any other activities involved in delivery of clinical care to the forensic learning disability and or autistic spectrum disorder patients.

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: Zoe Bentley Job title: Medical Workforce Manager Email address: [email protected]