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Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer this new innovative split research and clinical post within our well established, passionate and friendly perinatal team based in Warrington, Cheshire, covering the ‘Mid Mersey’ region (Warrington, Halton, St Helens and Knowsley).  

The team is part of the wider regional Cheshire and Mersey Specialist Perinatal Service and delivers high quality, evidence based care to women with mental health difficulties during pregnancy and up to the second postnatal year.  

This post would be ideal for a new or established consultant looking to develop research interests within a supportive clinical team. Merseycare has recently collaborated with the University of Liverpool to create the Mental Health Research for Innovation Centre (M-RIC), the perinatal team has close links with M-RIC and a developing research strategy and the new consultant would have a key role in establishing and developing this.

The service has recently been accredited by the RCPsych Perinatal Quality Network.

 Merseyside and the North West has a lot to offer for families and entertainment.  There is close access to the Lake District, Dales and North Wales.  There are a number of excellent schools, local beaches, sporting teams and stadiums for concerts of all varieties. A number of Art galleries and areas of beauty on your doorstep.

Main duties of the job

The consultant psychiatrist is expected to carry a caseload of the most complex cases. The majority of these will be care co-ordinated or have another team member involved delivering perinatal specific interventions.

They will also be available to provide consultation, advice and assessments to other team members and secondary community mental health services, although they are not required to act as care co-ordinator. They will be required to undertake new assessments for complex patients, provide medication and diagnostic assessments, lead CPA reviews and birth planning appointments, provide crisis and urgent reviews and lead discharges planning appointments for complex patients. The team aims to offer clinical appointments according to patient choice and need, home visits or virtual appointments are often preferred, but we also offer clinics in several locations too.

While primarily responsible for delivering a quality clinical service, the consultant psychiatrist is also expected to be actively involved in the development of the team and broader service, together with the rest of the leadership team. We have an active, ambitious and innovative perinatal service Quality Improvement programme, overseen by the Clinical Development Oversight Group, which consists of the service clinical leads and those clinicians involved in specific QI projects

Working for our organisation

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.