Job summary
- Main area
- General adult psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 325-5812572-MR-K
- Employer
- Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Two Bridges,
- Town
- Chertsey, Surrey
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Plus £149 Fringe Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist, HTT, North West (attracts £25K RRP)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Job overview
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is a General Medical Council (GMC) Sponsor Employer.
This job attracts a Recruitment and Retention payment of £25,000 in addition to £8000 relocation allowance. The RRP is pro rata for part time employees.
We’re looking for a dedicated and compassionate Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Northwest Surrey Home Treatment Team (HTT), based at Two Bridges in Chertsey.
Our HTT offers urgent and intensive mental health support to adults aged 18–65 in crisis, helping people stay at home and avoid hospital admissions wherever possible. You’ll be working with a skilled and welcoming multi-professional team, supporting people across Woking, Runnymede, Spelthorne and Elmbridge.
As our Consultant Psychiatrist, you’ll provide clinical leadership, expert assessments, and treatment planning. You’ll also support early discharge from hospital and work closely with local teams, services and carers. The role is central to helping people recover in the community with the right support in place.
This is a great opportunity to influence how urgent mental health care is delivered across the area, while developing your own clinical interests and leadership skills. The post offers flexible working options, admin support, and CPD opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The HTT interfaces with Inpatient Acute Services, Single Point of Access Triage Services, the Section 136 Places of Safety, Community Services, Liaison Services & the Criminal Justice System. Most patients are referred from CMHRS & Liaison Services.
The post holder will be responsible for delivering Consultant psychiatric input and clinical leadership to the MDT & acting as a consultant/advisor to the team in line with the developing models of practice under ‘New Ways of Working’
The post-holder is also expected to liaise effectively with the other general and specialist teams operating in Surrey to ensure effective handover of care when patients transfer between teams as part of the patient pathway.
On average, a full time Consultant will have 2-3 outpatient clinics per week as follow-up appointments & approximately 2 to 3 Emergency/ Domiciliary visits per week.
Our Offer:
- NHS Consultant grade £109,725 - £145,478 per annum + £149 fringe + on- call requirement
- GMC Sponsorship
- Recruitment premia £25,000 *subject to policy requirements
- Relocation allowance: up to £8000 *subject to policy requirement
- Sponsorship for International candidates
- Up to £2000/year CPD allowance *subject to policy requirements
- NHS pension employers contribution 23.7% from day one
- Company Car Lease Scheme
- Discounted Nuffield Gym Membership and many more
Please check our benefits here: Medical : Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust for other benefits.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description that clearly states all the requirements needed to carry out this role.
Click here to watch our YouTube videos about our offer to Consultants.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MBBS or equivalent recognised medical qualification
- Full medical registration with a license to practice.
- Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act(or within 6 to 12 months of the time of interview/assessment) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Relevant higher degree, e.g. MD, PhD, MSc or other additional clinical qualifications
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Management qualification or evidence of an interest in developing leadership skills.
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC concerning warnings and conditions on practice
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within three months of appointment
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of legislation, Department of Health Guidance and literature and its implications for clinical practice.
- Knowledge of NHS strategic vision in the Next Stage Review (High-Quality Care for All)
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho- social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Experience working with various patient groups presenting with the full range of clinical severity across different care Scr settings, including community, inpatient, and specialist teams.
- Knowledge of psychiatric provision
- Ability to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
- Experience in management
- Specific training qualification/certificate or attendance on a recognised teaching course.
- Peer review or research publications
- Published audit or research projects
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Essential criteria
- Ability to take a clinical leadership role in a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high- quality care.
- Skills and sensitivity in negotiating with patients, relatives, and other professionals where opinions differ.
- A high-level ability to effectively communicate complex and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers, and a wide range of lay and professional people within and outside the NHS at both written and oral levels.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
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 Shriti Burgul
- Job title
- Consultant Psychiatrist, North West Community
- Email address
- [email protected]
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