Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult In-patients; Austen Ward | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adult In-patients (Austen Ward) | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Employer:

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

Warrington, WA2 8WA

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

02/04/2026

• Austen Ward, Hollins Park, Warrington Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a dedicated and experienced Consultant Psychiatrist to join our inpatient team on Austen Ward, located at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington.

Austen Ward is a 17-bed, all-male general adult inpatient unit, supported by a team of up to three junior doctors, depending on training rotations.

The successful candidate will take on clinical supervision responsibilities for these trainees, contributing to their development and the delivery of high quality care.

This post has become available following the retirement of the previous Consultant, who served the Trust with distinction for over 20 years.

At Mersey Care, we are passionate about mental health, recovery, and wellbeing.

We are committed to delivering the highest standards of care and placing quality and compassion at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to support and empower our senior clinicians to lead innovation and drive change.

This role offers exciting opportunities to shape clinical practice, contribute to service development, and play a key role in enhancing patient outcomes.

If you are a forward-thinking psychiatrist looking to make a meaningful impact within a supportive and progressive Trust, we would love to hear from you.

Consultant psychiatrist responsibility for all patients on Austen 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 (RC) 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 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.

On Call and cover arrangements:
The post holder will be included in the daily consultant on-call rota for Mid Mersey.

There is usually always a higher trainee ST4-6 as second on call and a CT first on call during weekday evenings & nights and all-day weekends.

On-call availability supplement is 1%

• Band B low frequency, low intensity and has been consistently for many years.

The rota is currently shared with approximately 20 FTE colleagues.

When on-call the consultant is expected to cancel their routine work during normal working…