# Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry IMHT Burton > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-general-adult-psychiatry-imht-burton/dff670a7-d80f-4836-9d29-d24aa971e695 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-in-general-adult-psychiatry-imht-burton/dff670a7-d80f-4836-9d29-d24aa971e695.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stafford - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Psychiatry - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £109,725 - £145,478 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Closing date:** 2026-07-29T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-18T16:21:45.597Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/BurtonOnTrent/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Adult_Psychiatry/Adult_Psychiatry-v8020215 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8020215?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Community Consultant in General Adult Psychiatry to join the East Staffordshire Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) based in Burton on Trent. The role involves providing clinical leadership to the team as part of a collective leadership structure, and providing support and supervision as required to the Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Non-Medical Prescribers.  You will have responsibility to supervise a trainee attached to the team, although as with any training post this is subject to trainee availability. Opportunities are also available in the Trust to participate in postgraduate and undergraduate education for Junior Doctors and medical students from Keele Medical School. This role covers the East Staffordshire IMHT, comprising of one Primary Care Networks (PCNs); East Staffordshire, population 134749.  The post provides Consultant Psychiatrist cover for the whole IMHT, and the post holder will offer assessment and treatment to adults of working age with a range of mental health problems. This is part of a functionalised model in which patients requiring inpatient care, crisis or home treatment have their care temporarily transferred to the relevant pathway and therefore will have no clinical remit outside of the IMHT. You will take part in out of hours duties; on call work is remunerated at 3% as well as 0.25 APAs. ### Main duties of the job As the Community Consultant, you will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in partnership with voluntary care sector organisations and acute care settings. You will require a strong background in Clinical leadership. As part of this role, you will be expected to: - Ensure, in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, regular effective review of the care of patients in the clinical pathway – via individual assessments and follow up appointments, risk assessments, safeguarding needs and MDT meetings - Responsible Clinician for service users in the pathway who are subject to Community Treatment Order (CTO) where applicable. - Provide evidence-based care. - Be recovery focused. - Provide cross-cover (emergency and prospective) for other Consultant Psychiatrist colleagues by mutual agreement - Communicate with all key partners in an appropriate and timely way including service users, carers and General Practitioners. - Work within the requirements of service contracts including compliance with nationally agreed quality standards ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For full details of the role, please see attached the job description and person specification In addition: On Call Work: You will participate in an approx. 1:23 on call rota for Staffordshire – the rota covers both adult and older adult psychiatry on the St George’s site as well as community cover for emergencies across South Staffordshire.  The consultant is usually 3rd on call with support from a 2nd on call SAS Doctor or higher trainee and a 1st on call Junior Doctor.  Occasionally, the consultant may be 2nd on call if there is a gap on the 2nd on call rota.  Remuneration for on call work is currently via a 3 % availability supplement and 0.25 APA You will hold a caseload of approximately 100 – 150, many of which will have other clinicians in the IMHT working with them. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to provide leadership and vision in a changing environment - Awareness of lean methodology ### Experience **Essential** - Clinical leadership/ management experience at any level **Desirable** - Experience at Consultant level - Experience of setting up a new service ### Qualifications **Essential** - Primary Medical Degree - CCT or equivalent in General Adult psychiatry, or be within 6 months of achieving - Full GMC Registration including Licence to Practice, or eligibility for licence to practice, if coming from overseas - Approved Clinician (AC) status or eligibility to obtain within 3 months of appointment **Desirable** - Additional qualification in a clinical area, management or education ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 544.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10306646) - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.