Job requirements
Essential
3 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
- Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Job overview
It is no secret that we have an outstanding rating from the CQC, our staff survey results are one of the best in the country, that we are leaders in digital maturity and that we have a mature Quality Improvement approach to innovation and development.
What else we can offer you? Besides all of this is the chance to have time to pursue your own interests, so if they lie in R&D, QI, or management & leadership we’ll support you.
In 2021 Berkshire Healthcare was 4th out of the 48 community and mental health trusts for the number of research projects we recruited to, and have refreshed our research strategy and are looking for enthusiastic colleagues to develop and implement our research programme.
QI, the Trust is very active in terms of quality improvement, including the opportunity to gain fully accredited QI qualifications.
If you wish to play a pivotal role in leading and developing the service, the opportunities are there. Equally if you wish to develop in this area, we are happy to support and nurture your talent to allow you to take on such roles in the future.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached Locum Consultant job description together with the person specification for this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicant requirements
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 Locum Consultant Psychiatrist, Inpatient Acute MH Service with Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Reading, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £113,565 - £150,569 pro rata per annum. The contract type is 10 months (Fixed term: 10 months). The application deadline is 25 Oct 2026.
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