Consultant Psychiatrist

Integrated Care System; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Consultant Psychiatrist to join their well-established Psychiatry Liaison Team in Wakefield. This permanent role involves providing critical mental health services, collaborating with a dedicated team, and striving for high-quality care. Successful candidates will demonstrate emotional intelligence, excellent clinical skills, and commitment to psychiatric services.

Qualifications

• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Psychiatry or within six months of gaining CCT.
• Demonstrated proactive leadership and clinical skills.
• Experience in old age psychiatry and liaison.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health services to hospitals as part of the Psychiatry Liaison Team.
• Lead and collaborate within a multi-professional team to manage clinical complexity.
• Participate in continuous professional development and clinical leadership.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Leadership skills

Excellent clinical skills

Communication skills

Problem solving skills

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Qualification or higher degree in medical education

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist

The closing date is 18 July 2025

Permanent, full time, 10 Programmed Activities per week plus on-call

(part time may be considered)

South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust are recruiting for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Psychiatry Liaison Team. This role plays a vital part in provision of mental health services to Pinderfields Hospital and Dewsbury District Hospital. The Psychiatry Liaison Team is well established, it has a core 24 model, and it is well staffed with band 6 and band 7 nurses, specialty doctor and another consultant.

As a Trust were passionate about helping people reach their potential and live well in their communities by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. If youre kind, caring and compassionate; you put the person first and in the centre; you know that families and carers matter; you are respectful, honest, open and transparent; you seek to improve and aim to be outstanding; and youre relevant today and ready for tomorrow, we want you. How we work is as important to us as what we do. Our values and how we behave really matter to us.

Eligibility for the post, please note that you must be Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Psychiatry, or within six months of gaining CCT. We will consider applicants who complete CCT within 6 months of interviews. The proposed interview date will be mid August 2025.

Main duties of the job

We encourage diversity and understand that everyones circumstances are unique, we therefore actively encourage any prospective candidates to get in touch, if they have any questions or would like to discuss any aspect of this exciting post, please do not hesitate to contact.

Dr Abida Abbas, Psychiatry Liaison Consultant and Chief Clinical Information Officer Tel [phone] / [e-mail]

Dr Raghu Vutla, Medical Clinical Lead, Raghu.Vutla @swyt.nhs.uk/Tel-01924 316012

Prof. S Thiyagesh, Chief Medical Officer Tel: [phone] / [e-mail]

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms.

Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

For the full advert please see the supporting documents attached.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

For full advert, job description and person specification, please see attached supporting documents.

Person Specification

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrate emotional intelligence and leadership skills.
• Able to work flexibly and efficiently prioritise conflicting demands.
• Able to effectively manage time and resources within a team.
• Able to use electronic records.
• Commitment to annual appraisal and revalidation.
• Demonstrate proactive leadership.
• Demonstrate problem solving skills.
• Has cared for close family / friend with mental health needs.
• Fully registered with the GMC and have a licence to practise or MUST have checked GMC eligibility and commenced the application process at the time of NHS Jobs application.
• Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Psychiatry, or within six months of gaining CCT.
• Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within three months of appointment.
• Approved under S12 OR able to achieve within three months of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
• Dual training in old age and general adult psychiatry.
• Experience in old age psychiatry and liaison.

Experience

• Excellent knowledge in specialty.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
• Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
• Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
• Able to provide clinical leadership to a multi-professional team and liaise with a wide variety of agencies.
• Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.

Transport

• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence.

Special Knowledge and Skills

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Participate in continuous professional development.
• Participate in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
• Able to lead Case-Based Discussion Groups.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
• Reflect on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Experience in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit, and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations, and publications.
• Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research, or management.
• Experience in old age psychiatry.

Physical Attributes

• Smart professional appearance.

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.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust