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We are seeking to recruit to a Specialty Doctor post within our Ladywood & Handsworth CMHT in Birmingham.
Responsibilities of the post will include assessing new referrals from GPs and other referrers, including transfers from Home Treatment teams and internal transfers from other teams within the Trust, making an appropriate diagnosis, formulating management plans in the short term and long term.
The CMHT works very much in a multi-disciplinary way. Doctors work closely with the other members of the CMHT (Resident doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), an excellent group of CPNs, OTs, psychologists and psychotherapists with various approaches, physical health practitioners, and dietician).
The successful candidate will require at least four years postgraduate training of which two will be within a psychiatry training programme or equivalent psychiatry experience.
Main duties of the job
Our CMHTs have made progress in implementing the Long Term Community Mental Health Transformation plan which means less focus on static caseloads and more focus on partnership working across Primary Care, Secondary Care, the local authority and the voluntary sector.
The role of the Specialty Doctor will be to provide assessments for patients with mental health difficulties referred to the team and to develop risk assessment and management plans with the multi-disciplinary team, service user, carers and other involved agencies. There may also be the requirement to undertake Mental Health Act assessments, therefore eligibility for approval under Section 12(2) of the MHA will be required.
We offer a Trust and local induction programme and support the West Midlands RCPsych Mentorship scheme and encourage all new doctors to identify a mentor to support with transitional steps. There is a monthly peer-group meeting of Specialty Doctors (which includes teaching sessions), which the post holder will be encouraged to attend. There is also an MRCPsych course for Resident doctors which the Specialty Doctor will be welcome to join if they wish.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a detailed description of the role and its main responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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
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Essential
- Recognised medical degree
- Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
- Eligible for approval under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act.
- Completed at least four years’ full-time postgraduate training (or its equivalent gained on a part-time or flexible basis) at least two of which will be within a psychiatry training programme or as a fixed term specialty trainee within psychiatry; or have equivalent experience and competences
- Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development.
- At least two years experience of working in psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness.
- Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
- Commitment to clinical audit and quality improvement within multi-disciplinary team.
- Flexibility and adaptability to respond to changing service needs.
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work creatively within multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrable interest in the provision of gender sensitive mental health service
- Able to travel across the community base area
Desirable
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Approved under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act (1983)
- Broad clinical training in psychiatry including both inpatient and community service
- Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population.
- Experience of providing psychological and/or social interventions
- Experience of contributing to or completion of a service improvement project
- Completed clinically relevant audit projects
- Skills in working with individuals who are difficult to engage.
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This advert is for Specialty Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust in Orsborn House. It is listed as a Senior Medical doctor Psychiatry role. The advertised salary is £63,696 - £102,689 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 7 months (Maternity Cover). The application deadline is 02 Sep 2026.
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