Specialty Doctor in Community Adult Mental Health

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Spennymoor; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the United Kingdom is looking for a Specialty Doctor in Community Adult Mental Health. This role involves assessing and managing patients with various mental health conditions in a multidisciplinary team, contributing to patient care and service improvement. The candidate must have appropriate psychiatric qualifications and experience. The position offers an opportunity to make significant contributions to mental health services.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including 2 years in core psychiatry training.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice.
• Approved under S12 of MHA or able to achieve within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Conduct new patient assessments.
• Review and monitor medications.
• Lead multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Perform Mental Health Act assessments.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Good knowledge of psychiatry

Excellent clinical skills

Medication management

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

GMC registration

Postgraduate experience (4 years)

MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Specialty Doctor in Community Adult Mental Health

The closing date is 09 December 2025

The post is a replacement 10 PA post. The Sedgefield treatment and intervention team is based in Spennymoor. The team provides secondary mental health service input for all mental health conditions for the working age adult population. The team receives referrals mostly from GP surgeries via central Access team and other sources such as Crisis team, Liaison Psychiatry, wards.

The team provides specialist support to patients with significant mental health difficulties such as mood disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorder and adult neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD and autism. The team can obtain expert advice from Trust‑wide specialist services which include an ADHD service, the Autism Spectrum Assessment Team and the eating disorder service. The Crisis Team manages access to inpatient services.

The post-holder will develop effective working relationships with members of the Crisis Team and Inpatient Team by closely liaising with these services when patients are referred to the crisis team or need an alternative to hospital beds. Patients who need to be in hospital will be managed by the inpatient team.

The post-holder will join a dedicated multidisciplinary team and contribute to compassionate and evidence‑based patient care and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

• New patient assessments.
• Medication review/monitoring clinic.
• Follow-up clinics.
• Monitoring of physical health of patients on psychotropic medications.
• Prescribing and medication management.
• Periodic home visits.
• MDT meetings.
• Formulation meetings.
• Clinical leadership.
• Mental Health Act assessments (for section 12 approved).
• To contribute to service improvement/Audit.

About us

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range of inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We are a multi‑award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust takes a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to the majority of our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. Our medical staffing shortage puts strain on services and puts strain on workforce wellbeing and costs extend beyond the financial. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further detail on this post.

Please note, as this post is a fixed term, approval by the Royal College of Psychiatrist's is not needed.

Person Specification

Teaching & Training

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice at the time of appointment.
• At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including at least 2 years in a core psychiatry training programme in UK or abroad.
• Approved under S12 of MHA or able to achieve within 6 months of appointment.
• MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification.

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

• Good knowledge of psychiatry.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.

Research, Audit & Quality Improvement

• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology.
• Participated in research and/or service improvement.

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust