Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

The Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to join the Medium Secure Inpatient Services. This newly created post arises from the continued expansion of the Trust’s Medium Secure Services and comprises 7½ Direct Clinical Care (DCC) sessions and 2½ Supporting Professional Activities (SPA) sessions.

The Medium Secure services deliver specialist inpatient care for the Merseyside and Cheshire regions. Rowan View, opened in 2020, provides 95 inpatient beds (85 male and 10 female) for individuals with a primary diagnosis of mental illness and also offers medium secure care for men with a primary diagnosis of Learning Disability.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership as a responsible clinician at Rowan View Medium Secure Unit, managing a caseload of approximately 15 male inpatients and overseeing around 20 new admissions per year.


• Serve as one of several visi...