Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Mental Health Community

Consultant Psychiatrist – Adult Mental Health Community

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Job closing date: 28 August 2026.
Location: Hummingbird House, Harrogate; working with the Ripon Integrated Community Team covering Ripon, Knaresborough and Boroughbridge.

Main Duties

• Provide consultant input in line with New Ways of Working principles.
• Lead outpatient clinics, formulation, review and leadership meetings, and Mental Health Act‑related work.
• Conduct up to two new assessments per week after initial assessment by the care coordinator.
• Conduct approximately ten follow‑up assessments per week and review caseload regularly.
• Share cover arrangements and supervise junior medical staff with the other post holder.
• Act as lead professional for patients not subject to CPA.

Job Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical work in community mental health settings, including crisis and resolution services.
• Contribute to transformation of mental health services, collaborating with acute hospital liaison and crisis resolution/home treatment teams.

Person Specification

Leadership

• Reflect on own performance and behaviour; seek and act on feedback.
• Influence and persuade to improve services; lead multidisciplinary and wider teams.
• Understand NHS structure, quality improvement, and lean thinking methodology.
• Adapt to and lead service change.

Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning

• Deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Engage in continuous professional development, research, service evaluation, and clinical audit.
• Demonstrate achievements in education, research, audit and service improvement.

Qualifications

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC and licensed to practise at appointment.
• Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register in the specialty or within 6 months of gaining CCT.
• Approved clinician status, or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Approved under S12, or able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
• Higher qualification in medical education, clinical research or management.
• MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification.
• Included on GMC Specialist Register.

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

• Excellent knowledge of the specialty, using a bio‑psycho‑social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty, make evidence‑based decisions.
• Ability to meet duties under the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act.
• Wide range of specialist and sub‑specialist experience relevant to the post.

Experience

• Experience of working within the specialty.
• Any other relevant experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service submission under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

Salary

£113,565 to £150,569 per year; this post may attract a recruitment premia.