Consultant in GA Psychiatry - City North LMHT + Golden Hello

Job overview

🌟 Consultant Psychiatrist – City North LMHT

📅 Full-Time | 🔒 Permanent | ⏱ 10 PAs 💰 Golden Hello: 20% of the minimum point on the National Consultant (2003) contract

Are you ready to make a real difference in mental health care? Join #TeamNottsHC, one of the largest and most respected mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands, as a Consultant Psychiatrist within our City North Local Mental Health Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead, innovate, and shape the future of mental health services. You’ll work at the heart of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, providing expert clinical leadership and delivering high-quality, evidence-based care to our community.

✅ What We Offer

• 💵Golden Hello payment to welcome you on board.
• 🎓 Strong links to the North School of Psychiatry and East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery.
• 📈 Opportunities for professional development and service transformation.
• 🌍 Access to staff networks promoting Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing, and sustainability initiatives.

📩 Ready to take the next step? For informal discussions or visits, contact: Sophia Senthil, Deputy Clinical Director 📧[email protected]

Main duties of the job

🩺 Your Role

• 👩‍⚕️ Lead on patient assessment and management.
• 🤝 Provide consultancy and clinical leadership to the team.
• 📑 Engage in GP liaison, MDT meetings, and medicolegal work (MHA/Sec 12).
• 📞 Participate in the day duty on-call rota.
• 🔄 Drive service transformation and collaborative working across agencies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The number of new medical assessment does vary. The locality team will receive up to 25 referrals per week, most taken on by service and most seen by service unless there was a specific medical need as the first assessment. For community posts, numbers of referrals, team meetings, supervision of team members.
• Management of complex cases.
• Clinical leadership of team, engagement with MDT and RAMM.
• Role in assessment of referrals/admissions.
• Care plan and treatment formulation, guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness.
• Liaison and collaborative working with other services/agencies/colleagues.
• Mental Health Act implementation.
• Multi-disciplinary, multi-agency and partnership working.
• Day duty on-call rota