Consultant Psychiatrist - Adults (East Core Team)

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in Birmingham is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join their Core Adult Team. This role focuses on medical leadership, psychiatric assessments, and working within a multidisciplinary team to address complex mental health needs. Ideal candidates will have specialized training, substantial experience, and a commitment to quality improvement. Join a compassionate team dedicated to improving mental health in the community.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in psychiatry, especially in community settings.
• Experience with severe mental illness and providing psychological interventions.
• Commitment to clinical audit within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide psychiatric assessment and treatment for complex cases.
• Lead in quality improvement activities at the Washwood Heath hub.
• Offer consultation and supervision to mental health practitioners.

Skills

Leadership

Psychiatric assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Cultural competency

Education

Full GMC registration

MRCPsych or equivalent

Completion of Specialist Training in Adult Psychiatry

Job description

Go back Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adults (East Core Team)

The closing date is 20 October 2025

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Core Adult Team based at Washwood Heath Centre Hub for our East community mental health team.

You will have a central role within an MDT context in providing medical leadership, delivering psychiatric assessment and treatment for a caseload of children, adolescents and their families with variable degree of complexity associated with attachment difficulties, mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as contribute to providing psychiatric & medical risk management in the community.

On a day-to-day basis, as Consultant psychiatrist, you will be part of the Children's and Young People Mental Health Service. You will have a close working relationship on clinical matters with multidisciplinary teams and provide important liaison with other doctors in primary and secondary care.

You will offer specialist consultation and peer supervision to Senior Mental Health Practitioners within the clinical team including the supervision of resident doctors.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be considered for Quality Improvement Lead status for the Washwood Heath hub and shall be supported by the Service and Clinical Team Managers, as well as other Washwood Heath hub leads, in promoting and overseeing quality improvement activities within the MDT.

Overall, you will:

• Present yourselves consistently in line with Trust's values and promote these on daily basis.
• Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use your initiative and take responsibility for yourself, the quality of your work and the service your provide to patients.

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

Please see all job responsibilities in the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Scoring

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• Approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act (1983)
• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Obtained inclusion on the Specialist Register; or within six months of the award of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Adult Psychiatry; or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register
• Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development
• Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting
• Experience of providing psychological and/or social interventions
• 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.
• Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
• 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
• Broad clinical training including both inpatient and community service
• 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 clinically relevant 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