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This is an opportunity to join an Adult Community Mental Health Team serving adults aged 18–65 with severe and enduring mental illness. The service is undergoing a significant redesign, offering consultants the chance to actively shape future community mental health provision while maintaining high clinical standards.

The role provides an excellent work–life balance within a small-island healthcare system, supported by strong multidisciplinary working, modern facilities, and dedicated administrative support. The consultant will play a key clinical leadership role within the community mental health service and contribute to service development, teaching, and governance.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide senior medical leadership within the Adult Community Mental Health Team.
• Take responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis, and management of adults with severe mental illness in a community setting.
• Act as a Responsible Clinician for patients subject to Mental Health legislation in the community.
• Provide supervision and clinical oversight to Staff Grade doctors and junior medical colleagues.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team including psychologists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, and support staff.
• Contribute to Care and Recovery planning for patients under care coordination.
• Liaise with primary care, acute services, and other specialities as required.
• Participate in the psychiatry on-call rota and Mental Health Law assessments.
• Ensure accurate and timely clinical documentation and communication with GPs.
• Actively participate in clinical governance, audit, service development, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and in-house training programmes.
• Maintain CPD requirements in line with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Primary medical qualification (MBBS or equivalent)
• Complete GMC registration with a licence to practise
• Eligibility for inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in Adult Psychiatry
• CCT in Adult Psychiatry (or within 6 months of award at interview) or equivalent
• Eligibility for Section 12 approval
• Minimum 1 year NHS experience

Desirable

• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Higher degree (MD, PhD, MSc or equivalent)
• Existing Section 12 approval

Experience

Essential

• Experience assessing and treating adults with severe mental illness in community psychiatric settings
• Experience working within NHS mental health services
• Experience managing complex psychopharmacology, including depot medication and clozapine
• Understanding of clinical governance, audit, and CPD processes

Desirable

• Inpatient psychiatry experience
• Psychiatry on-call experience
• Experience working with Mental Health Law in community settings
• Experience in neurodevelopmental services (ADHD / ASD)

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Strong clinical leadership and decision-making skills
• Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage complex caseloads independently
• Competence in risk assessment and management

Desirable

• Experience contributing to service redesign or transformation
• Teaching and educational supervision experience

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Professional, patient-centred approach
• Flexible and adaptable to service change
• High standards of integrity and accountability
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and safeguarding

Desirable

• Interest in service innovation and strategic development

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