Consultant Psychiatrist in IDD

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Applications are invited for a full-time Consultant Psychiatrist working within the Highbury hospital Inpatient Assessment and Treatment Unit (5 programmed activities) and Nottingham City Community Intellectual disability Team (CIDT (5 programmed activities). The community component of the post includes two boroughs within Nottingham City. This is a newly reconfigured Consultant post with 10 programmed activities. This permanent position offers a dynamic and rewarding opportunity to lead and shape mental health care delivery for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Main duties of the job

The teams provides specialist input for adults with intellectual disability of all severity associated with a range of other diagnoses and conditions including Autism, ADHD, behaviours of distress, mental illness, epilepsy, dementia etc. The post holder will be the named Responsible clinician for the inpatient ATU and provide consultant psychiatrist input via clinics at Highbury Hospital and in the community.

The inpatient assessment and treatment unit admit male and female patients with a diagnosed intellectual disability from all over the county of Nottinghamshire. The post holder will manage 6 beds on Orion. There will be resident doctors rotating into the ward, up to and including one Foundation year 1, one Foundation year 2, one Core trainees and, depending on stage of training, one Higher trainee.

In the community setting, you will play a key role in routine and urgent patient assessment and management, GP liaison, contributing to and leasing multidisciplinary meetings, and medicolegal work (MHA/Sec 12).

The post includes clinical leadership, supervision, and participation in a 24 hour IDD specific on-call rota. You will contribute to service transformation and work collaboratively across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MB BS or equivalent medical qualification

Desirable

  • Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
  • MRCPsych OR MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Additional clinical qualifications

Eligibility

Essential

  • Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
  • Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
  • Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
  • Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Desirable

  • In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Transport

Essential

  • Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Excellent knowledge in specialty
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
  • Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
  • Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
  • Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA

Desirable

  • Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service

Academic Skills and Lifelong Learning

Essential

  • Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
  • Ability to work in and lead team
  • Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
  • Participated in continuous professional development
  • Participated in research or service evaluation
  • Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
  • Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes

Desirable

  • Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
  • Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
  • Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation
  • Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications
  • Has led clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 July 2026

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