Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

General Practitioner

The closing date is 18 March 2026

Job summary

This is a 5 clinical sessions per week job providing GP primary health care to secure psychiatric and learning disability patients across several hospitals within Secure division. This job also includes a pro rata CPD session weekly

Sites are Ashworth hospital (high secure), Rowan View (medium secure), Aspen Wood (LD unit), Hollins park (low secure), Rathbone (low secure)

Main duties of the job

Provide Health Care and ward based primary health care to high clinical standards to the patients of Secure division
Undertake comprehensive physical health care profile and provide on-going management of chronic problems, working closely with other physical healthcare staff
Attend Strategic/Clinical meetings to develop the service.
Review/follow up actions/occurrences, attended to out of hours, by doctors on call
Maintain patients' clinical records

Main duties of the job

Providing physical health care into the challenging environment of secure psychiatric settings.

Liaise and work closely with other members of the MDT

About us

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.

Date posted

04 March 2026

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Doctor - other

Salary

Depending on experience £100,870-£114,743 pro rata dependant on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

350-MED7720509

Job locations

Ashworth hospital

Parkbourne

Maghull

L31 1HW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Principal Responsibilities:

1. Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.

2. Responsible for the delivery of identified training.

3. Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.

4. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.

5. Ensure that team work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.

6. Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.

7. Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co- ordinated provision of health and social care services.

8. Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.

9. Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.

10. Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.

11. Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.

12. Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.

13. Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.

Clinical duties may include:

14. Ensure services are provided to a high quality and that they are of a consistent standard to meet the identified needs of the service user.

15. Comply with all clinical governance requirements as they relate to continuous improvement in quality and organisational performance

16. Share responsibility for conducting appropriate and comprehensive clinical risk assessment and contribute to the implementation of relevant risk management strategies

17. Be responsible for developing and implementing policies and procedures and guidance relating to medical practice and ensure clinically effective health interventions are provided. Establish appropriate monitoring systems to measure performance and effectiveness.