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Job summary

Main area
Psychiatry
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref
436-MEDICAL-WHC-CONS
Employer
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Washwood Heath Centre
Town
Alum Rock, Birmingham
Salary
£109,725 - £145,478 Per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/09/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Consultant Psychiatrist - Adults (East Core Team)

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Job overview

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Core Adult Team based at Washwood Heath Centre Hub for our East community mental health team.

You will have a central role within an MDT context in providing medical leadership, delivering psychiatric assessment and treatment for a caseload of children, adolescents and their families with variable degree of complexity associated with attachment difficulties, mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, as well as contribute to providing psychiatric & medical risk management in the community.

On a day-to-day basis, as Consultant psychiatrist, you will be part of the Children's and Young People Mental Health Service. You will have a close working relationship on clinical matters with multidisciplinary teams and provide important liaison with other doctors in primary and secondary care.

You will offer specialist consultation and peer supervision to Senior Mental Health Practitioners within the clinical team including the supervision of resident doctors. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be considered for Quality Improvement Lead status for the Washwood Heath hub and shall be supported by the Service and Clinical Team Managers, as well as other Washwood Heath hub leads, in promoting and overseeing quality improvement activities within the MDT.

Overall, you will:

  • Present yourselves consistently in line with Trust’s values  and promote these on daily basis.
  • Act as a role model to colleagues, always seeking to maintain the highest standards of professionalism.
  • Use your initiative and take responsibility for yourself, the quality of your work and the service your provide to patients.

 

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year.  We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community.  If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see all job responsibilities in the Job Description and Person Specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Scoring

Essential criteria
  • Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
  • Approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act (1983)
  • MRCPsych or equivalent
  • Obtained inclusion on the Specialist Register; or within six months of the award of a Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in Adult Psychiatry; or eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register
  • Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development
  • Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, preferably in a community setting
  • Experience of providing psychological and/or social interventions
  • Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
  • Commitment to clinical audit within multi-disciplinary team.
  • Evidence of potential for effective leadership
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Ability to work creatively within multi-disciplinary team.
  • Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
  • Willingness to be involved in management of service.
  • Able to participate in Consultant on-call rota.
  • Able to travel
Desirable criteria
  • Additional qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or another relevant field
  • Broad clinical training including both inpatient and community service
  • Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population
  • Experience of stakeholder engagement in service delivery
  • Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
  • Completed clinically relevant audit projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerPositive about disabled peopleDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeStonewall Health ChampionsDisability confident employerArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Dr Manoj Sukumaran
Job title
Deputy Medical Director
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0121 301 0000
Additional information

Fozia NawazKhan

Service Manager, Core Clinical Group

Email: [email protected] 

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