Lead Psychiatrist - Secured Services

Transformationunitgm; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Consultant providing clinical leadership at HMP Peterborough. This role offers the chance to integrate high-quality trauma-informed care within a dedicated mental health team, supported by significant training and professional development opportunities. A welcome bonus of £40,000 will also be provided over the first two years.

Benefits

£40,000 welcome bonus

Flexible working options

Continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Experience and knowledge of compassionate leadership.
• Registration with a relevant professional body is essential.
• Broad clinical experience required.

Responsibilities

• Provide trauma-informed clinical care within an integrated team.
• Work closely with mental health teams to deliver quality care.
• Provide assessments and input into multi-professional decision making.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Compassionate leadership

Interpersonal skills

Clinical governance

Education

Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC

Registration with relevant professional body

Job description

Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site HMP Peterborough Town Peterborough Salary £105,504 - £139,882 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

This exciting new post offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership across NHFT Secured Services and to deliver high-quality trauma-informed clinical care within an integrated mental health team, based at HMP Peterborough. The post provides the opportunity to gain experience in medical leadership and management, to be involved with research, and to work flexibly.

We are offering a £40,000 welcome bonus to the successful candidate, paid over the course of your first two years in post.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide care for patients reaching the threshold for secondary services in HMP Peterborough (a privately managed local category B men’s and closed women’s prison with capacity for 944 males and 360 females includes 12 bedded Mother and Baby unit). They will work closely with the mental health team in HMP Peterborough, providing medical leadership, assessments, input into multi-professional decision making, treatment and reviews, and support the transfer of patients to secure hospital where required.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details please find attached the full job description or please call the service. Please note this job description is currently with the Royal College of Psychiatry for approval

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

• • Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
• • Registration with a relevant professional body
• • Broad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
• • Experience and knowledge of compassionate leadership, skills to influence behaviour and culture, and foster collaborative working within and between teams
• • Experience of co-production
• • Familiarity with tools for effective clinical governance, continuity, development and growth of psychiatry provision across NHFT secured services
• • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries, organizations and systems to build effective partnerships and innovation in service delivery

Behaviours and Values

• • Willing to ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes.
• • Willing to comply with professional codes of practice and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to psychiatry and wider mental health through engagement in health and justice clinical networks and communities of practice
• • Reliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
• • Approachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.
• • Able to lead with compassion, to demonstrate integrity, and to motivate, inspire and empower both individual colleagues and teams, fostering a culture in which hope, kindness, resilience, and excellence thrive.

Skills and Abilties

• • Ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
• • Ability to prioritize effectively, to work in a flexible way, and to respond to change to support the needs of patients and continuity of psychiatry provision across NHFT Secured Services
• • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
• • A growth mindset and willingness to learn and teach in a constructive manner, taking on board the ideas of others and working within a leadership structure.
• • Ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
• • Sound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
• • Ability to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
• • Ability to communicate information in a range of formats including one-to-one meetings, formal and informal meetings, written reports and electronic communication including small databases

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.