Specialty Doctor in General Adult Community (Colne)

NHS; Watford; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Watford is seeking a Specialty Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry. The candidate will undertake outpatient clinics and collaborate within multidisciplinary teams, addressing various facets of patient care. Applicants must possess an MB BS or equivalent, hold MRCPsych or equivalent, and be GMC registered. This role offers a competitive salary ranging from £61,542 to £99,216 annually.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 months experience within General Adult Psychiatry.
• 4 years' post graduate training in Psychiatry or equivalent.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise.

Responsibilities

• Undertake outpatient clinics and home visits.
• Liaise effectively with primary care and mental health services.
• Ensure regular clinical supervision with the consultant psychiatrist.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams

Clinical experience in a range of services within Psychiatry

Education

MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

MRCPsych or equivalent

Job description

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Specialty Doctor in General Adult Community (Colne)

The closing date is 11 January 2026

We are seeking a Specialty Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry.

In 12 years, the Trust has been successful in acquiring the tender for the provision of specialist Learning disability services in Norfolk, North Essex and Buckinghamshire.

The Trust covers a mix of rural and urban areas, including the City of St Albans, the large towns of Watford, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage, and the smaller towns of Hemel Hempstead, Radlett, Berkhamsted, Harpenden, Hertford, Ware, Bishops Stortford, Hitchin and Letchworth.

Hertfordshire Social Services have divided the county into four areas. The county has three Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). West Hertfordshire is served by Herts Valleys CCG and Dacorum and East and North Hertfordshire is served by East and North Herts CCG.

Main duties of the job

To undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients.

To record clinical activity accurately and comprehensively and submit this promptly to the Information Department.

To participate annually in a job plan review with the line manager, which will include consultation with a relevant manager in order to ensure that the post is developed to take into account changes in service configuration and delivery associated with modernisation. To work with local managers and professional colleagues in ensuring the efficient running of services and share with consultant colleagues in the medical contribution to management.

To comply with the Trust's agreed policies, procedures, standing orders and financial instructions, and to take an active role in the financial management of the service and support the medical director and other managers in preparing plans for services.

Provision of psychiatric expertise to the wider multi-disciplinary team.

About us

Our conversations with service users, carers, staff, commissioners and the wider communities we serve have informed a simple but ambitious vision:

We will achieve our vision by:

Putting the people who need our care, support, and treatment at the heart of everything we do - always.

Consistently achieving the outcomes that matter to the individuals who use our services, and their families and carers, by working in partnership with them and others who support them.

Providing the very best experience of joined-up care in line with what service users and carers have told us makes 'Great Care'.

Job responsibilities

• To undertake outpatient clinics, home visits and participate in multidisciplinary case discussions.
• To liaise effectively with primary care and mainstream mental health services.
• To have regular clinical supervision with the consultant psychiatrist. It is the post holder's responsibility to ensure that this is booked.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

ELIGIBILITY

• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
• Section 12/Approved clinician approval.

CLINICAL SKILLS KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 4 years' full time post graduate training (or it's equivalent gained on a part time or flexible basis) at least two years of which to be within a psychiatry training programme or as fixed term Specialty Trainee within psychiatry o; or have equivalent experience and competencies.
• Minimum of 6 months experience within General Adult Psychiatry.
• Ability to work well in multidisciplinary teams.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psychosocial perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Clinical experience in a range of services within Psychiatry.
• Excellent degree of medical knowledge in relation to.

ACADEMIC SKILLS LIFELONG LEARNING

• Ability to demonstrate clinical problem solving in interdisciplinary areas.
• Possession of good organisational skills.
• Be able to actively listen and have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit.

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.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

£61,542 to £99,216 a year Pro Rata Per Annum