Consultant Psychiatrist-Learning Disabilities: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

This is a 5 PA Consultant Psychiatrist post within the Forest of Dean Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT), working as part of an established multidisciplinary team.

The post provides specialist psychiatric assessment, treatment and ongoing management for adults with learning disabilities within the Forest of Dean locality, including the assessment and management of mental health, behavioural and epilepsy-related presentations.

The consultant will have responsibility for a defined proportion of the team caseload, working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team, primary care and other partner agencies to provide high-quality, person-centred care.

The caseload will be shared between the two consultant posts, with arrangements for allocation of patients agreed within the team.

The post offers an opportunity to work within a well-established CLDT with a defined clinical workload and protected SPA time.

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 20 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide consultant psychiatric leadership and clinical expertise to the CLDT, including assessment and formulation, diagnosis, treatment planning, medication review and management, risk assessment and management, and clinical review of people with complex mental health and/or behavioural presentations.

The post holder will contribute to the assessment and management of epilepsy where relevant, multidisciplinary assessment and care planning, and provide advice and support to colleagues and partner agencies.

The role will involve working collaboratively with patients, families and carers, as well as contributing to clinical leadership, supervision, teaching and service development as appropriate within the allocated SPA time.

The post holder will also contribute to the education, training and supervision of resident doctors, supporting the service’s ongoing role in postgraduate medical education.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Higher specialist training in Learning Disability Psychiatry

Desirable

  • Experience of complex cases at ST6 level
  • Knowledge of epilepsy management and physical health complexities related to PWLD

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Understanding of wider NHS context
  • Effective leadership and working knowledge of multidisciplinary team working

Desirable

  • Management, audit and research skills

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).

Closing Date: 11 September 2026

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