Job summary
- Main area
- psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 436-CONS-REASIDE
- Employer
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Reaside Clinic
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
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 looking to recruit a 1.0 WTE Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, for a 12 month fixed term locum appointment, to join our multidisciplinary team at Reaside Clinic, Birmingham. The post holder will be the Responsible Clinician for a caseload comprising of male patients in medium secure care and community patients who have been discharged from secure care.
The post holder will provide medical leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical team, manage referrals into the service from a defined geographical catchment area, and maintain good working relationships with secondary care services in that area.
Applicants must have full registration with the GMC, MRCPsych or equivalent, Section 12 (2) approval, approved clinician status and ideally inclusion on the specialist register in forensic psychiatry.
Main duties of the job
You will provide medical leadership within a shared leadership framework in which the contributions of all are valued. You will be the responsible clinician for approximately 14 detained inpatients in medium secure care, and for approximately 10 community patients who have been discharged from secure care.
You will work very closely with the multidisciplinary team and will forge good relationships with secondary care mental health services in a defined catchment area, from which your referrals will mostly come.
You will also be expected to contribute to the bed management, clinical governance and service development processes of the service. This includes working with colleagues from across the Reach Out Provider Collaborative.
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
The full job description is attached.
This post provides an exciting opportunity to join a large and comprehensive forensic mental health service, with a peer group of over 20 consultant forensic psychiatrists working across multiple clinical services.
We are committed to developing the careers of our medical staff and the successful applicant will be encouraged to participate fully in the continuing medical education programme, develop special interests, undertake research activities and forge links with appropriate academic centres.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name
Dr Dinesh Maganty
Job title
Clinical Director, Secure Care & Offender Health
Email address
Telephone number
0121 301 0000
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- Full GMC registration with a licence
- Expected to be approved to act as an approved clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 prior to commencement of post
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development.
- Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, complex presentations and serious risk behaviours
- Values a multi-disciplinary, person centred approach to patient care.
- 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.
- 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
- Inclusion on the specialist register for, or within six months of the expected award of a CCST in, forensic psychiatry
- 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 and disseminated research or audit projects
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Dinesh Maganty
- Job title
- Clinical Director, Secure Care & Offender Health
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 301 0000
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