Job summary
The Tees Adult Mental Health (AMH) services comprises of 4 localities: Middlesbrough, Stockton, Hartlepool and Redcar and Cleveland. Each locality has Intensive Home Treatment and Crisis Services, Community Teams (Community hub and Treatment & Intervention teams) and a Primary Care team. Each locality will have its own EIP Service with close links to the Community Teams. In Patient Services for Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar and Cleveland are based at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough.

The post holder will cover Hartlepool community team (Intervention and Hub team) and will have supervision with consultant of the locality. The team caseload is 320 currently patients. This will fluctuate around these numbers.

The Specialty Doctor will deliver high-quality, recovery-oriented psychiatric care within the Hartlepool CMHT, managing a defined caseload of patients with complex and enduring mental health conditions.

The role involves autonomous clinical decision-making, risk management in community settings, and active participation in MDT processes, with an emphasis on continuity of care, relapse prevention, and least restrictive practice.

Main duties of the job
Undertake comprehensive psychiatric assessments in community clinics, home visits, and virtual settings.

Formulate cases using a biopsychosocial model, incorporating risk and protective factors.

Manage a caseload of patients with severe mental illness (e.g., psychosis, bipolar disorder, complex depression, personality disorder).

Provide longitudinal care, including medication management and relapse prevention planning.

Lead on dynamic risk assessments (suicide, self-harm, violence, vulnerability).

Formulate and document risk management plans in line with Trust policy.

Work closely with care coordinators, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and occupational therapists.

Provide medical leadership within MDT discussions, particularly in complex or high-risk cases.

Monitor and manage physical health needs of patients with severe mental illness.

Liaise with primary care and other specialties as required.

About us
We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country operating from sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).

Details
Date posted: 15 July 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Specialty Doctor
Salary: £63,696 to £102,689 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: C9346-AMH-344M
Job locations: One Life
Park Road
Hartlepool
TS24 7PW
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
More detailed information about the post can be found on the job description attached to this advert.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Desirable: MRCPsych

Eligibility

• Essential: Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
• Essential: Approved under S12 of MHA OR able to achieve within 6 months of appointment
• Desirable: In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Clinical Values and Behaviours

• Essential: Able to demonstrate good clinical skills and knowledge in psychiatry with bio-psycho-social perspective
• Essential: Able to demonstrate good clinical communication skills showing empathy and sensitivity
• Essential: Person-centred and recovery focused
• Desirable: Postgraduate experience in the relevant specialty
• Desirable: Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
• Desirable: Able to undertake duties under MHA and MCA

Professional Values and Behaviours

• Essential: Able to show commitment to Trust values of respect, involvement and well-being
• Essential: Able to work co-operatively in a multi-disciplinary team and to delegate appropriately.
• Essential: Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.
• Desirable: Able to manage and prioritise workload and cope under pressure

Academic Values and Behaviours

• Essential: Participated in and reflected on the purpose of continuous professional development
• Essential: Participated actively in clinical audit.
• Essential: Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Desirable: Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Desirable: Participated in research or service evaluation.

Leadership Values and Behaviours

• Essential: Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Healthcare Leadership Model (HLM)
• Essential: Able to show essential behaviours on the 9 dimensions of the HLM
• Desirable: Able to show proficient behaviours on the 9 dimensions of the HLM

Experience

• Essential: At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including at least 2 years in a core psychiatry training programme in UK or abroad

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Address: One Life
Park Road
Hartlepool
TS24 7PW
United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Medical Staffing Advisor
Julie Magee
tewv.medicalrecruitment@nhs.net