Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 270-MED477
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - Lincolnshire and Notts Prisons
Consultant
Job overview
We are recruiting three Consultant Psychiatrists to cover psychiatry needs across HMP Lowdham Grange, HMP Ranby, Morton Hall and North Sea Camp.
HMP Lincoln will be the post-holder’s base. However, there will be a requirement to work across HMP Morton Hall and provide cross-cover to HMP North Sea Camp and Swinderby Short-Term Holding Facility.
In addition, there is the option to work flexibly, where clinically appropriate, to provide a hybrid approach to patient care, offering both face-to-face and telemedicine appointments, and to undertake management duties and SPA from the prison or home.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality, trauma informed psychiatric care within integrated mental health teams in prisons. The post holder will deliver assessment, diagnosis and treatment of people with severe mental illness, neurodevelopmental conditions and complex comorbidity in custodial settings, ensuring equivalence of care with community services.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details about these roles please see the attached job description or alternatively contact the service
Person specification
Behaviours and Values
Essential criteria
- • Willing to ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes.
- • Willing to comply with professional codes of practice and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to psychiatry and wider mental health through engagement in health and justice clinical networks and communities of practice
- • Reliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
- • Approachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
- • Inclusion on (or eligibility for) GMC Specialist Register
- • Approved Clinical status
- • Evidence of CPD, Appraisal and re-validation compliance
- • Broad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
- • Ability to provide compassionate, trauma informed care in secure settings
Desirable criteria
- Prison or forensic psychiatry experience
- Experience in neurodiversity / ADHD
- Teaching, leadership or service development experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- • The ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
- • The ability to prioritize effectively, to work in a flexible way, and to respond to change to support the needs of patients and continuity of psychiatry provision across NHFT Secured Services
- • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
- • A growth mindset and willingness to learn and teach in a constructive manner, taking on board the ideas of others and working within a leadership structure.
- • The ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
- • Sound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
- • The ability to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
- • The ability to communicate information in a range of formats including one-to-one meetings, formal and informal meetings, written reports and electronic communication including small databases.
- • Ability to work effectively across multiple sites.
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
- Champion Seun Fadipe
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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