Job overview

Applications are invited for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist working within the Highbury hospital Inpatient Assessment and Treatment Unit (5 programmed activities) and Nottingham City Community Intellectual disability Team (CIDT (5 programmed activities). The community component of the post includes two boroughs within Nottingham City. This is a newly reconfigured Consultant post with 10 programmed activities. This permanent position offers a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to lead and shape mental health care delivery for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Main duties of the job

The teams provides specialist input for adults with intellectual disability of all severity associated with a range of other diagnoses and conditions including Autism, ADHD, behaviours of distress, mental illness, epilepsy, dementia etc. The post holder will be the named Responsible clinician for the inpatient ATU and provide consultant psychiatrist input via clinics at Highbury Hospital and in the community.

The inpatient assessment and treatment unit admit male and female patients with a diagnosed intellectual disability from all over the county of Nottinghamshire. The post holder will manage 6 beds on Orion.  There will be resident doctors rotating into the ward, up to and including one Foundation year 1, one Foundation year 2, one Core trainees and, depending on stage of training, one Higher trainee.

In the community setting, you will play a key role in routine and urgent patient assessment and management, GP liaison, contributing to and leasing multidisciplinary meetings, and medicolegal work (MHA/Sec 12).

The post includes clinical leadership, supervision, and participation in a 24 hour IDD specific on-call rota. You will contribute to service transformation and work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment