Consultant Psychiatrist

Consultant Psychiatrist

Closing date is 11 May 2026

We are looking to recruit a dynamic, motivated Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Worcester City Neighbourhood Mental Health Team.

Main Duties of the Job

The Worcester City Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) is part of the NHS Community Mental Health Framework and focuses on improving access, reducing fragmentation, and supporting people to maintain wellbeing and stability within their own communities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing accessible, person‑centred mental health care for adults with a range of needs, including severe, complex and enduring conditions.
• Delivering holistic, trauma‑informed support for those with Severe Mental Illness, trauma histories, personality difficulties, substance use, long‑term physical health conditions or social adversity.
• Working collaboratively with primary care, social care, voluntary sector partners and community services to deliver integrated, recovery‑focused care.
• Maintaining seamless care across organisational boundaries with a no‑wrong‑front‑door referral policy and step‑up/step‑down flow between primary and secondary services.

Job Responsibilities

• Accept referrals from four mental health inpatient wards, 14 GP practices, the South Home Treatment Team, and the South Early Intervention Service for working‑age adults aged 17 and over.
• Manage a caseload of 15‑20 patients, delivering psychosocial interventions such as Crisis Safety Planning, Emotional Management and Distress Tolerance Skills, Anxiety Management, Early Warning Signs / Relapse Prevention, Behavioural Activation, and Sleep Hygiene.
• Provide a Managing Emotions Group for patients with emotional dysregulation, often as a precursor to further psychological work such as DBT.
• Assist in meeting the 28‑day service access target and currently maintain this standard.
• Participate in twice‑weekly referrals meetings and a monthly educational/team administration meeting.
• Contribute to psychological provision through dedicated Bipolar and Psychosis, trauma‑specific Specialised Individual (SI), and generalised Specialised Teams (ST) pathways.

Benefits

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with long service.
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay for unsocial hours.
• Flexible and agile working arrangements.
• Strong maternity, paternity and adoption support.
• Wide range of supportive staff networks.
• Health and wellbeing opportunities.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Full registration with the General Medical Council (or eligibility for full registration at the time of appointment).
• MBBS or equivalent primary medical qualification.

Experience

• Minimum of 12 years medical work (continuous or aggregate) since obtaining a primary medical qualification, including a minimum of 6 years in a relevant specialty.

Knowledge

• Relevant clinical experience.
• Knowledge of appropriate medical, pharmacological and psychological treatments in General Adult Psychiatry.
• Understanding of NHS operating principles and evidence‑based service delivery.
• Recognition of the importance of excellent team‑working relationships and the ability to apply them.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams in a collaborative style.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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