# Consultant Psychiatrist - Wellingborough/East Northants CMHT

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, St Mary's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Psychiatry
- **Grade:** Consultant
- **Salary:** £113565.00 to £150569.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-06T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22T08:27:43.490Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8311787
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8311787?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nhft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Full time Consultant Psychiatrist.

The post holder will provide psychiatrist outpatient care for adults aged 18-65 in the Wellingborough and East Northants CMHT

### Main duties of the job

- Provide clinical leadership to the team and take clinical responsibility for the assessment and treatment of patients as part of a multidisciplinary clinical team.
- Clinics for assessing new referrals, medication reviews for patients in the team and reviews.
- Supervision of MDT colleagues around cases they are managing
- Oversee the medication and care of patients in the depot and clozapine clinics
- Undertake Mental Health Act assessments on patients from within the sector
- Be the Responsible Clinician for patients detained under a Community Treatment Order

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details of this role please see attached Job description. Alternatively, please contact the service.

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Skills and Abilities

**Essential**

- - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- - Evidence of the ability to communicate with patients, colleagues and staff at all levels.
- - Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences including courts and tribunals
- - Ability to motivate and develop other medical colleagues and other MDT members
- - To balance individual requirements against those of the Directorate and Trust as a whole
- - An understanding of the political and financial framework within which the Services operate
- - Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
- - Post holder will need to take initiative and work in a self-directed manner.

**Desirable**

- - Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
- - Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- - Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation

### Behaviours and values

**Essential**

- - In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- - Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
- - Ability to work independently as well as part of A MDT
- - Able to form a good working relationship with the peer group
- - Willingness to undertake training and CPD in areas appropriate to this post
- - Ability to work under pressure
- - Willingness to participate in in-house training

### Knowldege and Experience

**Essential**

- - Full GMC Registration
- - On Specialist Register) for General Adult Psychiatry or eligible for inclusion within six months.
- - Approval under Section12 of the Mental Health Act.
- Approved Clinician status (? or eligible within six months- to match the specialist register requirement above)

**Desirable**

- - Additional Postgraduate Qualifications
- - Publication of original research
- - Management training

## Documents

- [your guide to nhft (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3047)
- [wellingborough and east northants cmht consultant (pdf, 744.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10632247)

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