Consultant Psychiatrist for Adult Community Mental Health Service

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Job summary

Help shape the future of adult mental healthcare in Berkshire. Join a forward-thinking community of Consultant Psychiatrists committed to delivering high-quality compassionate care, driving clinical excellence, and working collaboratively to improve outcomes for patients.

As an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist, you’ll join a friendly, well-established multidisciplinary team based in Maidenhead and Windsor. We are a CQC ‘Outstanding’ rated community and we’re proud to be one of the first to achieve Advanced Foundation Trust (AFT) status – a new national mark of excellence from NHS England.

You’ll play a central role in a supportive, clinically led service, where your knowledge and expertise directly influence how care is delivered. We’ll support you to build a career that reflects your interests, whether that’s advancing your clinical practice, getting involved in service transformation, research and development or stepping into leadership.

All of this comes with the added benefit of living and working in one of the UK’s most desirable regions, offering an excellent balance between career and lifestyle.

If you meet the essential criteria and would like an informal discussion before applying, please contact one of the team (see details below).

We are pleased to offer aRecruitment premium of £15,000 and relocation allowance of £8,000 (if applicable) for external candidates.

Main duties of the job

As a Consultant Psychiatrist you will:

  • Provide consultant-level clinical leadership within the WAM Community Mental Health Team (CMHT), working with locality psychiatry colleagues to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care
  • Deliver direct and consultative psychiatric input into assessment, formulation, and ongoing patient management, supporting recovery-focused outcomes
  • Contribute to initial psychiatric assessments via the Common Point of Entry (CPE), supporting triage and referral management from primary care
  • Undertake Mental Health Act duties, including community-based assessments, and act as Responsible Clinician for a small number of patients on CTO
  • Lead within the Care Programme Approach (CPA), ensuring patients’ psychiatric, physical health, and social needs are effectively addressed
  • Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, contributing to clinical, service and pathway development discussions
  • Engage with GPs and primary care colleagues, supporting coordinated, integrated and seamless care pathways
  • Participate in CMHT referral meetings and provide prescribing input, including for clozapine and depot clinics, ensuring safe and effective medication management.

This is a full-time role, with three days based in our Maidenhead office. Flexible options can be discussed.

Person Specification

Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Excellent knowledge in specialty
  • Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge

Desirable

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

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: 3 August 2026

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