Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

NHS; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist for a full-time position in City & Hackney. This role involves providing leadership and supervising a multi-disciplinary team to deliver high-quality inpatient care. The ideal candidate will have a medical degree, be registered with the GMC, and possess strong clinical skills to handle complexity in mental health treatment. Responsibilities include contributing to service development and engaging with community mental health teams, ensuring safe discharge processes. The position requires excellent teamwork, communication, and leadership capabilities.

Qualifications

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.
• Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act) eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant leadership to the inpatient team.
• Work with ward manager to ensure quality treatment.
• Coordinate leave and cover for patients.

Skills

Teamwork

Clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective

Time management

Leadership and management

Communication

Education

Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent)

Qualification in medical education, clinical research or management

Job description

Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Inpatient in City & Hackney

The role includes providing the RC cover, focusing on consultant level assessment of any new admissions that have taken place, actively supporting an effective interface between the ward, HTT and the community teams to facilitate safe early discharges from the inpatient unit, actively engaging with the relevant community teams, providing clinical leadership for the MDT on the ward, leading ward and management rounds and undertaking relevant reviews of inpatients, supporting the bed management processes and maintaining high quality care for the patients on the ward.

Joshua ward has a full multi‑disciplinary team. In addition to the inpatient consultant psychiatrist the medical team consists of:

• 8 WTE higher trainee doctor (0.2 working in the community team)
• 1 WTE core trainee
• 0.8 to 1 WTE GPVTS trainee (depending on rotations)

The ward has an average of 15 admissions per month. There is management support from the Associate Clinical Director (Dr Victoria Cohen), who reports to the Clinical Director (Dr Olivier Andlauer).

Closing date : 4th January 2026

Interview date (AAC panel) : 20th January 2026

Main duties of the job

This is a full‑time post. The post‑holder will provide consultant leadership, supervision, and support to the inpatient team. They will work with the ward manager and modern matron to deliver high quality inpatient treatment to the population of male adults living in West Hackney and who require inpatient admission.

They will contribute to the overall management and service development of Joshua Ward. The post‑holder will coordinate leave and cover arrangements for the patients they have RC responsibility for, with the other inpatient consultants, and occasionally with community consultant psychiatrists. We are keen to develop clinical and medical leadership.

The post‑holder will:

• Contribute as a senior member of staff to service development within Joshua Ward
• Offer consultations, assessments & appropriate treatments to people living in City & Hackney and requiring a hospital admission.
• Develop close links with other Acute Wards and Community teams, including newly established Neighbourhoods Mental Health Teams.
• Work with service users to develop service user input to service delivery and development.
• Supervise and coordinate the work of colleagues, notably resident doctors.
• Ensure clinical audit of the service and the implementation of appropriate assessment tools and outcome measures as an integrated part of the service and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Job responsibilities

For further information relating to this vacancy please see attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Medical degree, MBBS or equivalent
• Section 12 Approval (Mental Health Act) and eligible to be temporarily (whilst acting‑up) on the register of Approved Clinicians (MHA, 2007).
• Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.

Skills

• Ability to work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team
• Excellent clinical skills using bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Ability and commitment to work with service users in service development and delivery
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to contribute to service planning, development, and management
• Formal leadership/management training

Knowledge

• Excellent knowledge of operation of acute adult mental health service.
• An understanding of relevant Government guidelines, targets and legislation

Clinical Experience

• Excellent experience of operation of acute adult mental health service
• Assessment and treatment of a wide range of mental health and psychological disorders with evidence‑based interventions
• Wide range of specialist and sub‑specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service - including good experience of work in acute mental health services, and/or experience of working in Early Intervention in Psychosis service
• Experience of contributing and/or leading on service planning, development and management

Teaching

• Ability to deliver teaching to graduates and undergraduates in medical and non‑medical disciplines
• Excellent presentation skills
• Formal training in teaching methods

Research

• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Research interest
• Research or audit published in peer‑reviewed journals

Other

• An understanding and experience of working with service users from a socially deprived, multi‑ethnic area
• Adequate health to fulfil the responsibilities of the post
• Able to travel between sites
• Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

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.

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