Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Integrated Care System; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health service provider is seeking a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to join a multidisciplinary team. Responsibilities include overseeing a caseload of patients in medium secure settings and forging relationships with secondary care services. Applicants must possess a GMC registration and an MRCPsych or equivalent. The role offers an opportunity to work within a comprehensive forensic mental health service.

Qualifications

• Must have full registration with the GMC.
• MRCPsych or equivalent qualification is mandatory.
• Experience in teaching and training at various levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
• Manage referrals into the service from the catchment area.
• Forge relationships with secondary care mental health services.

Skills

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Experience with severe mental illness

Leadership potential

Teaching and training experience

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Specialist register in forensic psychiatry

Job description

Go back Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

The closing date is 21 August 2025

We are looking to recruit a 1.0 WTE Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, for a 12 month fixed term locum appointment, to join our multidisciplinary team at Reaside Clinic, Birmingham. The post holder will be the Responsible Clinician for a caseload comprising of male patients in medium secure care and community patients who have been discharged from secure care.

The post holder will provide medical leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical team, manage referrals into the service from a defined geographical catchment area, and maintain good working relationships with secondary care services in that area.

Applicants must have full registration with the GMC, MRCPsych or equivalent, Section 12 (2) approval, approved clinician status and ideally inclusion on the specialist register in forensic psychiatry.

Main duties of the job

You will provide medical leadership within a shared leadership framework in which the contributions of all are valued. You will be the responsible clinician for approximately 14 detained inpatients in medium secure care, and for approximately 10 community patients who have been discharged from secure care.

You will work very closely with the multidisciplinary team and will forge good relationships with secondary care mental health services in a defined catchment area, from which your referrals will mostly come.

You will also be expected to contribute to the bed management, clinical governance and service development processes of the service. This includes working with colleagues from across the Reach Out Provider Collaborative.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job responsibilities

The full job description is attached.

This post provides an exciting opportunity to join a large and comprehensive forensic mental health service, with a peer group of over 20 consultant forensic psychiatrists working across multiple clinical services.

We are committed to developing the careers of our medical staff and the successful applicant will be encouraged to participate fully in the continuing medical education programme, develop special interests, undertake research activities and forge links with appropriate academic centres.

Name

Dr Dinesh Maganty

Job title

Clinical Director, Secure Care & Offender Health

Email address

[e-mail]

Telephone number

0121 301 0000

Person Specification

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• Full GMC registration with a licence
• Expected to be approved to act as an approved clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 prior to commencement of post
• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development.
• Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, complex presentations and serious risk behaviours
• Values a multi-disciplinary, person centred approach to patient care.
• Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
• Commitment to clinical audit within multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of potential for effective leadership.
• Ability to work creatively within multi-disciplinary team.
• Willingness to be involved in management of service.
• Able to participate in Consultant on-call rota.
• Able to travel
• Additional qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or another relevant field
• Inclusion on the specialist register for, or within six months of the expected award of a CCST in, forensic psychiatry
• Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population.
• Experience of stakeholder engagement in service delivery
• Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
• Completed and disseminated research or audit projects

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.

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust