Specialty Doctor in Learning Disability Psychiatry

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a specialty doctor to gain experience in the field Learning Disabilities and Autism. This is currently a fixed term post enabling a candidate to get enough experience with an excellent multidisciplinary team, supporting our population within the beautiful county of Northumberland.

We expect a candidate who is happy working within a collegiate team, and is enthusiastic and relatively autonomous. We will offer support and supervision within the role and help the candidate develop their skills.

Please note we can not sponsor GMC for this role.

Please note this vacancy will close once sufficient applications have been received.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Jeremy de Bono

Email:  [email protected]

Tel: 01670 502700

Main duties of the job

• Day-to day clinical work
• Assessment, treatment and management of patients referred to the services. The doctor’s work will be supervised by a consultant psychiatrist.
• Attending and contributing to MDT meetings.
• Multidisciplinary team working will be essential; collaborating with all the MDT members, referrers and secondary care clinicians regarding the care of patients in the community
• To work collaboratively with other Senior Clinical Colleagues in the community team.
• To take a lead role in service improvements and development.
• To contribute to ongoing training and development programme within the teams.
• Administrative responsibilities include appropriate documentation as required within the Trust systems.
• The job will involve 9 Direct Clinical Care PAs and 1 PAs dedicated to supporting you in your professional activities including continuous professional development. There will be a flexibility in discussing special interest, participation in research or audit through medical job planning process.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The job entails offering medical cover to the team, who primarily manages people via nursing and psychological methods.
• Reviewing medication and ensuring the right monitoring is undertaken.
• Aiding with formulation and direction of care plans.
• Attending to emergency situations
• Taking part in multidisciplinary meetings and helping with the organization of these
• Offering supervision to more junior doctors and to colleagues within the team when required/appropriate
• Having a role within service improvement and development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Please note interviews will take place on Tuesday 24th February 2026