Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult

Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult

The post would appeal to anyone who has an established interest in Mental Health Services. You will need to ensure that people who use services, carers, and advocates are treated with respect and dignity. Please refer to the job description and person specification to support your application to this post. Refer to the essential and desirable criteria when outlining the skills, knowledge, and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application.

Main Duties of the Job

We want a Consultant Psychiatrist who can:

• Deliver the highest quality of clinical care to our patients and carers.
• Work in partnership at both strategic and operational levels with relevant and external stakeholders.
• Provide excellent clinical leadership and actively develop your team along with expert advice to our hospital and community specialists, managers, and directors on what is needed to deliver excellent care and future strategic directions.
• Liaise with General Practitioners, hospital and community specialists, and other agencies wherever relevant.

A specimen timetable illustrating how the consultant timetable may be arranged within the current framework can be found in the attached job description. You will engage with the development of your Job Plan.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health, and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Job Responsibilities

We are now seeking to recruit Consultant Psychiatrists to join our community mental health services Charnwood Locality on a full-time or part-time basis. You will work in partnership with members of well-established multi-disciplinary teams, both operationally and strategically to drive forward innovation delivering the best effective care for our patients.

Every opportunity will be given to encourage personal initiatives, research, specialist interests, teaching, training, management, and leadership.

Salary and Benefits

You will be receiving at Level C £22,500 recruitment and retention premia, which will be paid over 3 years on top of your salary and a relocation package up to £8000 (subject to conditions).

As an employer, we offer:

• Protected time for research/special clinical interest.
• Access to funds to support CPD/Study leave allowance (30 days over 3 years with a budget of £1000).
• Agile working with ICT support.
• Staff Benefits including NHS Pension, childcare vouchers, a salary sacrifice scheme, discount schemes, cycle to work, and lease car schemes.
• Staff health and wellbeing, subsidised gym membership, and other wellbeing support.

Informal visits and enquiries are welcomed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• MRC Psych or equivalent.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of appointment.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of the interview date.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience within NHS or comparable service.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement awards, prizes, presentations, publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.

Experience

• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience within NHS or comparable service.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer Name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Loughborough Community Hospital, Hospital Way, Off