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Job requirements
Essential
23 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates.
- Experience
Evidence of experience in medical audit.
- Technical skills
Flexible to work in person and remotely, as required by the service.
- Technical skills
Understanding of importance of multi-disciplinary service provision, and collaborative working across teams for the benefit of service users.
- Technical skills
Sensitivity to needs of different ethnic and minority groups.
- Technical skills
Understanding of and ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users to promote recovery.
- Technical skills
Committed to a career in mental health.
- Technical skills
Highly effective communication skills.
- Technical skills
Awareness of gender issues in service provision.
- Technical skills
Team player, strengths focused, skilled in developing positive, professional relationships.
- Technical skills
Reflective, insightful to own learning and communication style, willing to learn and develop.
- Knowledge and Skills
Competence in basic clinical procedures
- Knowledge and Skills
Able to prioritise clinical need, time and workload
- Knowledge and Skills
Aware of own limitations
- Knowledge and Skills
Understands the principles of patient confidentiality and data protection
- Knowledge and Skills
Understand the importance of working effectively in teams
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to assess, recognise and initiate management of the acutely ill patient and play an effective part in advanced life support
- Knowledge and Skills
Understanding of the basic principles of audit and clinical governance
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to undertake a full psychiatric assessment including mental state examination
- Knowledge and Skills
Understands the criteria for diagnostic categories for common mental disorders
- Training and expereince
MBBS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Training and expereince
Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice.
- Training and expereince
Satisfactory completion of F1 & F2 or equivalent experience.
Desirable
16 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience working in a in general adult psychiatry.
- Experience
Experience working in an acute psychiatric ward.
- Experience
Teaching/presentation experience (e.g., conference presentation, EBM, research experience) to a range of audiences.
- Experience
Experience networking and building collaborative working relationships across a range of stakeholders / other clinical specialisms to improve patient care pathways and experience.
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of UK health systems, practices and values; awareness of current issues in the NHS
- Knowledge and Skills
Computer literate
- Knowledge and Skills
Understands the importance & impact of information systems in health care
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to practice evidence-based medicine
- Knowledge and Skills
Evidence of continuous professional development
- Knowledge and Skills
Contributes to teaching and learning of others
- Knowledge and Skills
Active participation in clinical audit
- Training and expereince
Distinctions, scholarships, prizes
- Training and expereince
Experience of research
- Training and expereince
Experience of Foundation training
- Training and expereince
24 months of continuous service with the NHS (F1 & F2 years)
- Training and expereince
Additional degrees e.g. MSc, PhD
Job overview
We are looking for a full-time Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry to join the multidisciplinary team on Dovedale 2 Ward at the Michael Carlisle Centre, Sheffield. Dovedale 2 is a new, 12-bed female acute mental health inpatient ward.
You will contribute to the assessment, treatment and safe discharge of people receiving inpatient care, working alongside medical, nursing, psychology, pharmacy and occupational therapy colleagues. The post includes regular consultant supervision, protected time for professional development and opportunities to take part in quality improvement or audit.
This is a fixed-term post from November 2026 to 6 April 2027, with the possibility of extension to 3 August 2027. Applicants must have completed foundation training or have equivalent experience.
Main duties of the job
You will provide medical and psychiatric care for service users on Dovedale 2 Ward as part of the multidisciplinary team. Your main duties will include:
- Undertaking psychiatric and medical assessments, including mental state examinations and risk assessments, to inform care plans.
- Contributing to treatment and recovery plans, including appropriate pharmacological and psychological interventions.
- Attending ward rounds, formulation reviews, patient review meetings and discharge planning meetings.
- Working with community mental health services and other teams to support safe admissions, transfers and discharges.
- Completing clinical records, correspondence, Mental Health Tribunal reports and other reports required for patient care.
- Responding to clinical needs on the ward, recognising when to seek senior advice and support.
- Taking part in supervision, teaching and continuing professional development, with opportunities to contribute to audit or quality improvement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This appointment is for a full time Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry on Dovedale 2 Ward. The post holder will be responsible for providing medical cover at the Michael Carlisle Centre in Sheffield.
This will be a fixed term post from November 2026 until 6th April 2027 with the possibility of extension to 3rd August 2027.
The post holder shall have completed at least 24 months full-time foundation training or equivalent experience.
The successful applicant will be based at the primary site for the ward. The post holder will have office accommodation, with IT support for e-mail, internet access and secretarial support. The post holder will be issued with all required IT equipment including a laptop and mobile phone as may be required.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry with Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust in Sheffield, England. It is listed as a Junior Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The contract type is 5 months (This will be a fixed term post from November 2026 until 6th April 2027 with the possibility of extension to 3rd August 2027.). The application deadline is 27 Oct 2026.
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