Specialty Doctor in Rehabilitation and Recovery Psychiatry
Specialty Doctor in Rehabilitation and Recovery Psychiatry
Want to join an enthusiastic motivated team providing high quality care?
NHS Lanarkshire is ambitious for the population it serves and its staff. We offer flexible and innovative ways of working and leadership opportunities.
We will have a Speciality doctor vacancy in our Rehabilitation and Recovery Psychiatry Team based at Coathill Hospital, Coatbridge. The team is a well-established, supportive and multidisciplinary team group who manage people during their recovery within local hospital sites and in the community.
We are the ideal location for doctors old and new just a short commute from the city of Glasgow and the surrounding countryside. One of our newer recruits had this to say;
“Lanarkshire has proved to be a stimulating, rewarding and enjoyable place to work. There are great opportunities as well as very supportive colleagues.”
The job is offered as a full-time post on a 10 PA basis. Applications will be considered from those wishing to work less than full-time.
Proposals for additional SPA time from applicants are encouraged. In addition to the 1 PA for Non-DCC/SPA activities, the Board is supportive of applications for additional SPA time from individuals with well-developed ideas for improving services who are able to demonstrate a commitment to quality improvement, patient safety (including human factors training), Medical Education, Research & Development, acting as an Appraiser, etc. Applicants who are able to demonstrate a commitment to any of the above or other areas and wishing to commence on more than 1 PA for SPA duties should discuss proposals with the identified Recruitment Lead and/or Service Manager who will consider the request in line with the successful candidate’s professional and service requirements.
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Informal enquiries regarding this post will be welcomed by Dr Shoshana Cross, Consultant in Rehabilitation and Recovery Psychiatry on 01698 753 666; and Dr Richard Taylor, Clinical Director on 01698 752691.
If you have any queries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please email medical.dentalSAS@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk
Interview Date: 27th January 2026 AM
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Additional Information for Applicants
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‘In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.
*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parent’s/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.’
NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by the UK Border Agency. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.
Candidates who require a Certificate of Sponsorship can access further information on the UK Border Agency’s new points based system that now governs the way individuals from outside the EEA can work in the UK at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk