Consultant Psychiatrist, Older Adult Inpatient Hastings (enhanced RRP)

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

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Older adult inpatient service in Hastings, based at the Conquest Hospital site, Hastings. You will be joining a mutually supportive, friendly and enthusiastic team with a real passion for what we do.

We have two older adult inpatient wards and a dementia ward within East Sussex, alongside 4 adult wards, crisis and liaison teams. We are a teaching Trust with strong links with Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS). If eligible and approved by the GMC as clinical/educational supervisor, the successful candidate can apply to supervise a trainee. Our Trust recently expanded the offer of training posts for KSS deanery, and that includes GPVTs, FY, CT and HST level.

This job attracts aRecruitment and Retention payment of £45,000structured over a three-year period as follows:

o£15,000 payable upon successful recruitment

o£10,000 payable at 12 months’ service

o£10,000 payable at 24 months’ service

o£10,000 payable at 36 months’ service

Main duties of the job

Psychiatrists are integral for driving change and influencing service development. As a Trust we welcome positive transformation and using each other’s experiences to shape this. The Trust has ambitious aims to continuously improve for the good of our patients and we welcome clinical and non-clinical views in order to achieve this together.

You will work with a highly specialist multi-disciplinary team to provide in-patient care consisting of a Specialty Doctor, Clinical Psychologists, Nurse’s, Support Workers and an Occupational Therapist.

You will be based in a friendly team environment and will have your own office space with access to a locker. You will also have access to a dedicated administrator.

The Consultants will provide quality mental health care and treatment for patients with severe and enduring mental illness. It is expected that the post holder will embrace New Ways of Working in their clinical practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Basic Medical Training
  • Full GMC / UK Registration
  • MRC Psych or equivalent
  • CST and entry onto the GMC Specialist Register expected within 6 months
  • Section 12 approval and AC approval

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Broad based training in psychiatry
  • Experience & training in management of severe mental illness especially in Older people

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: 19 July 2026

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