Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry
The closing date is 10 June 2026
We’re looking for 3 Specialty Doctors to join our team of life savers and life changers who share our values to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to be the difference improving lives every day.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our acute inpatient and crisis mental health teams. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to preference and negotiate bespoke job plans across the services below:
Our Endcliffe Ward (PICU)
Our brand new Dovedale 2 Ward
Our Urgent and Crisis Service
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work‑life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part‑time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
Main duties of the job
- Attendance at ward team meetings and chair these meetings when required.
- Medical leadership to the multidisciplinary ward team.
- Medical/psychiatric assessments for care planning and risk assessment.
- Formulation and delivery of appropriate pharmacological and psychological interventions to aid recovery.
- Undertake Seclusion reviews as necessary.
- Attendance at Tribunal hearings for people detained under Mental Health Act.
- Completion of administrative tasks necessary for clinical responsibilities.
- Writing of Mental Health Review Tribunal Reports or reports to other agencies.
- Liaison with members of other teams to transfer patients into and out of inpatient service.
- Attendance at CPA reviews and pre‑discharge planning meetings.
- Clinical supervision of junior medical staff.
- Teaching of undergraduate medical students.
- Attendance at weekly CPD sessions.
- Attendance at Monthly Governance meetings and Leadership meeting.
- Will be supported through monthly clinical supervision.
About us
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we’re looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.
What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it’s all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share.
It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of.
If you’re interested in developing your career, you’ll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.
We are very proud of the difference we make to people’s lives each and every day and if that’s something that you’d like to be part of we’d love to have you with us.
Job responsibilities
A total of 30 sessions is available across the services below to be mutually agreed with successful applicants through a preferencing process:
Endcliffe Ward (10 sessions)
Dovedale 2 Ward (10 sessions)
Urgent and Crisis Service (10 sessions)
Person Specification
Knowledge & Skills
- Effective leadership skills
- Ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users and their families/carers.
- Ability to supervise junior staff
- Awareness of the funding arrangements in the NHS and recent NHS developments
- Ability to interpret published research and to apply research findings to clinical practice.
- Experience of involvement in service development and/or reconfiguration
- Practical experience of research
- Sympathetic to the Trust’s mission
Training & Qualifications
- MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practice
- Section 12 (2) MHA 1983 approved OR eligibility for S12 approval.
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Training in evidence‑based interventions
- Approved Clinician (AC) status/eligibility to be on the AC register.
Experience
- 2 years Foundation experience or equivalent.
- 2 years Core Psychiatry experience or equivalent.
- Experience of leading a multi‑disciplinary team.
- Experience in teaching undergraduates and postgraduates.
- Experience in medical audit & understanding of clinical governance principles
- Teaching/presentation experience (e.g. conference presentation, EBM, research experience).
- Experience of adult acute and crisis and/or psychiatric inpatient care
- A detailed knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the functions of the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Managers’ Hearings
- Experience of writing reports of and attending Managers’ Hearings and MHA Tribunals.
- Experience networking and building collaborative working relationships across a range of stakeholders to improve patient care pathways and experience.
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.
Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
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