Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry
In-patients and Crisis Response Home Treatment Team

Location: Grangewood Hospital, Gransha Park, Londonderry
Directorate: Adult Mental Health & Disability
Contract Type: Permanent
Closes: Fri, 29 January 2027 at 3:30 PM

Mental Health and Disability Services within the Western Trust are in the midst of a significant change process. Within the past 10 years there has been a shift to more community focussed care including the development of Crisis Response Home Treatment Services. Alongside this, there has been an increased emphasis on consultant psychiatrists providing a high standard of care in the community, through the Primary Care Liaison and Recovery Teams.

The Trust wishes to recruit 1 whole time equivalent Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist to cover Inpatient Care and Crisis Response Home Treatment for patients from the Strabane/Slievmore catchment areas. This is a replacement post with shared responsibility for a 30 bedded in-patient unit and local Crisis Response Home treatment services.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Help develop a comprehensive treatment service based on quality assured evidence based practice, with overall responsibility for a defined caseload of community patients.
• Provide professional supervision to other medical staff, including psychiatric trainees, GP trainees and Foundation Year 2 Doctors.
• Participate in clinical, multi-professional and medical audit, quality enhancement and service evaluation projects.
• Participate in an out of hours rota with other Consultant psychiatric colleagues.
• Advise the Director of Adult Mental Health and Disabilities on service planning and development.

Essential Criteria

• Hold or be eligible for Full General Medical Council (London) and Licence to Practise, and be on or eligible to be on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry.
• 7 years post registration experience including 5 years in psychiatry and 3 years Higher Professional Training.
• Part 2 status, or apply for as soon as practically possible.
• Hold a current full driving licence valid for use in the UK and have access to a car or an approved form of transport.

Desirable Criteria

• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Experience of or qualification in management, psychological methods of treatment, pharmacology associated with mental illness, community based treatment of mental illness, and training and education of other staff.

Recruitment and Retention Premium
The Trust has received approval from the Department of Health to apply a Recruitment and Retention Premium of 20% of the basic starting salary for successful applicants joining HSCNI, exclusive of clinical excellence or discretionary points and any on call availability supplement. The premium is paid as a lump sum, is fixed for 2 years and is repayable if you leave before the end of that period. It does not apply to applicants from within HSCNI.

The Trust is committed to arranging flexible working arrangements for all practitioners taking into account service need and personal circumstances. Applications are welcome from candidates unable to work full time.

The Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate their eligibility to work in the UK.