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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Community Mental Health to join a well-established multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team in Northern Ireland.

This is a newly developed Consultant post created following service reorganisation, offering the opportunity to provide clinical leadership and expert psychiatric care within a progressive community mental health service.

The successful candidate will work within a collaborative CMHT model supporting adults with complex mental health needs while contributing to service development, governance, education, and multidisciplinary working.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

The Consultant Psychiatrist will:

• Provide consultant-led psychiatric assessment and treatment
• Deliver clinical leadership within the CMHT
• Manage complex community mental health cases
• Support multidisciplinary treatment planning
• Participate in distributed caseload responsibility models
• Work collaboratively with:
  • Crisis teams
  • Home treatment services
  • Inpatient mental health services
  • Specialist psychiatry teams
  • Psychological therapy services
• Participate in MDT meetings and clinical reviews
• Supervise junior medical staff and trainees
• Contribute to clinical governance and audit
• Participate in senior on-call rotas
• Support teaching, supervision, and service development

Leadership, Teaching & Development

The role offers opportunities in:

• Clinical leadership
• Service redesign and innovation
• Medical education
• Supervision of trainees
• Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate staff
• Participation in research and audit
• Clinical governance activities
• CPD and leadership development programmes

The service actively supports:

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Consultant mentoring
• Leadership development
• Academic and teaching involvement
• Quality improvement initiatives

Person Specification

Requirements

Essential

• Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practise
• MRCPsych or recognised equivalent
• Approved Clinician status
• Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act
• Eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register or within 12 months of CCT
• Minimum 1 year NHS experience
• Excellent clinical skills in Adult Psychiatry
• Experience managing complex mental health presentations
• Strong multidisciplinary working ability
• Excellent communication and leadership skills

Desirable

• Higher degree (MD, MSc, PhD or equivalent)
• Leadership or management experience
• Research and publication experience
• Teaching and supervision experience
• Service development and quality improvement involvement
• Specialist or sub-specialist psychiatry interests