Are you an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist looking to move forward in your career? If so, join The Farndon Unit as the Medical Lead where you will provide care for women with complex mental health needs. What you’ll be doing: you will play a central role in driving clinical excellence and ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care.
Responsibilities
* Provide strategic leadership, ensuring consistent, high‑quality standards of care and fidelity to our clinical model.
* Champion a positive, recovery‑focused, trauma‑informed culture, influencing practice across the unit.
* Represent the medical team at governance meetings, service development discussions, and external stakeholder forums.
* Oversee medical input into audits, QI projects and service evaluations, ensuring learning and improvement are embedded in everyday practice.
* Offer professional leadership, supervision and support to Consultant Psychiatrists and Associate Specialists within the service.
* Coordinate medical cover, ensuring safe, effective clinical staffing across the unit.
* Lead medical workforce processes, including recruitment, induction and appraisal.
* Working effectively with patients and colleagues to ensure the best care and treatment outcomes.
* Driving multidisciplinary care and leading and managing the CPA, ICR and CTR process of reviews.
* Building positive relationships with external stakeholders such as ICBs.
* Undertaking psychiatric assessments for women referred to the unit.
* Providing oral and written evidence at First‑tier Tribunal and Hospital Managers' hearings.
* Delivery of evidence‑based treatment approaches in line with NICE guidance.
* Medication management and co‑production of therapeutic treatment plans with our service users.
On‑Call Duties
* Participation in our 1 in 8 on‑call rota that covers 2 tiers of support to 9 units across the Midlands and Yorkshire regions. The on‑call is entirely remote and mostly involves telephone support and advice.
Qualifications
* MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
* Full GMC registration with licence to practice.
* MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
* Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status.
* Clinical training and experience required for gaining UK CCT.
* Experience of assessment and management of patients in psychiatric rehabilitation settings.
* Experience as a Consultant Psychiatrist, with proven ability to provide clinical leadership within multidisciplinary teams.
* Demonstrated engagement in service development or governance activities, prior formal management experience desirable but not essential.
* All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Working Conditions
You will work 37.5 hours a week in a clinically rewarding environment and receive a highly competitive salary, along with a competitive pension scheme and a number of other benefits. You will join two full‑time psychiatrists, an associate specialist and an established multidisciplinary team at the Farndon Unit and act as a Responsible Clinician for up to 15 inpatients across both our rehabilitation ward and our low secure service. You will have the support of an associate specialist on the rehabilitation ward, a full multidisciplinary team, a personal assistant, a CPA Co‑ordinator and an MHA Co‑ordinator. As a valued staff member, you will have excellent CPD and professional development opportunities.
Location
The Farndon Unit is located in Newark and is part of the IMPACT Provider Collaborative in the region with close links to NHS services with established care pathways. Newark has excellent transport links and is commutable from Lincoln, Nottingham, Sleaford and Mansfield.
Benefits
* Competitive annual salary.
* £5,000 car allowance.
* 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays and your birthday off.
* A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP) and pension contribution.
* Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals.
* Voluntary benefits.
* Medical indemnity cover.
* Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely‑Vate; your one‑stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits and wellbeing hub.
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work‑life balance.
* Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts.
* Life Assurance, for added peace of mind.
* Instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
* 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be.
* Enhanced maternity package, so you can truly enjoy this special time.
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