Psychiatry (Community Mental Health Team) - Consultant

< Back Psychiatry (Community Mental Health Team) - Consultant An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Psychiatrist in Adult Community Mental Health to join a well-established multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Team in Northern Ireland. This is a newly developed Consultant post created following service reorganisation, offering the opportunity to provide clinical leadership and expert psychiatric care within a progressive community mental health service. The successful candidate will work within a collaborative CMHT model supporting adults with complex mental health needs while contributing to service development, governance, education, and multidisciplinary working.

Main Duties & Responsibilities The Consultant Psychiatrist will:

• Provide consultant-led psychiatric assessment and treatment
• Deliver clinical leadership within the CMHT
• Manage complex community mental health cases
• Support multidisciplinary treatment planning
• Participate in distributed caseload responsibility models
• Work collaboratively with: Crisis teams Home treatment services Inpatient mental health services Specialist psychiatry teams Psychological therapy services
• Participate in MDT meetings and clinical reviews
• Supervise junior medical staff and trainees
• Contribute to clinical governance and audit
• Participate in senior on-call rotas
• Support teaching, supervision, and service development

Leadership, Teaching & Development The Role Offers Opportunities In Clinical leadership Service redesign and innovation Medical education Supervision of trainees Teaching undergraduate and postgraduate staff Participation in research and audit Clinical governance activities CPD and leadership development programmes The Service Actively Supports Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Consultant mentoring Leadership development Academic and teaching involvement Quality improvement initiatives

Person Specification Requirements Essential Full GMC Registration with Licence to Practise MRCPsych or recognised equivalent Approved Clinician status Section 12(2) approval under the Mental Health Act Eligible for inclusion on the Specialist Register or within 12 months of CCT Minimum 1 year NHS experience Excellent clinical skills in Adult Psychiatry Experience managing complex mental health presentations Strong multidisciplinary working ability Excellent communication and leadership skills Desirable Higher degree (MD, MSc, PhD or equivalent) Leadership or management experience Research and publication experience Teaching and supervision experience Service development and quality improvement involvement Specialist or sub-specialist psychiatry interests