Job summary
- Main area
- Secured Services
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 270-MED454
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Peterborough
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Psychiatrist - Secured Services
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
This exciting new post offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership across NHFT Secured Services and to deliver high-quality trauma-informed clinical care within an integrated mental health team, based at HMP Peterborough. The post provides the opportunity to gain experience in medical leadership and management, to be involved with research, and to work flexibly.
We are offering a £40,000 welcome bonus to the successful candidate, paid over the course of your first two years in post.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide care for patients reaching the threshold for secondary services in HMP Peterborough (a privately managed local category B men’s and closed women’s prison with capacity for 944 males and 360 females includes 12 bedded Mother and Baby unit). They will work closely with the mental health team in HMP Peterborough, providing medical leadership, assessments, input into multi-professional decision making, treatment and reviews, and support the transfer of patients to secure hospital where required.
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more details please find attached the full job description or please call the service. Please note this job description is currently with the Royal College of Psychiatry for approval
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- • Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
- • Registration with a relevant professional body
- • Broad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
- • Experience and knowledge of compassionate leadership, skills to influence behaviour and culture, and foster collaborative working within and between teams
- • Experience of co-production
- • Familiarity with tools for effective clinical governance, continuity, development and growth of psychiatry provision across NHFT secured services
- • Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries, organizations and systems to build effective partnerships and innovation in service delivery
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.
- • Able to lead with compassion, to demonstrate integrity, and to motivate, inspire and empower both individual colleagues and teams, fostering a culture in which hope, kindness, resilience, and excellence thrive.
Skills and Abilties
Essential criteria
- • Ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
- • 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.
- • 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
- • Ability to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
- • 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
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
- Caroline Watson
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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