Consultant Psychiatrist Male PICU/Medical Director

A specialist healthcare service is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist – Male PICU/Medical Director to join the team. This is a full-time role of 37.5 hours per week.

The hospital provides comprehensive inpatient mental health services within a supportive and therapeutic environment.

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What you’ll be doing

As Consultant Psychiatrist – Male PICU/Medical Director, you will be accountable for:

• Leading the recruitment, induction, and probation of medical staff, ensuring compliance with training requirements, specialist registration, and practising privileges.

• Overseeing medical staff appraisals, revalidation, and performance management, addressing clinical or behavioural concerns collaboratively.

• Providing strategic and operational leadership as part of the Senior Management Team, ensuring healthcare policy, clinical governance, and best practice standards are implemented and maintained.

• Ensuring effective medical cover, including robust arrangements for out-of-hours and annual leave.

• Leading clinical investigations, complaints, and crisis management, working with senior clinical leadership to resolve issues and drive improvements.

• Contributing to continuous learning by embedding lessons from complaints, incidents, benchmarking, and service user feedback.

• Maintaining your own clinical caseload, completing mandatory training, and representing the hospital’s clinical expertise with commissioners, partners, and stakeholders.

Further details are available in the job description.

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What you’ll bring to the role

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a Consultant Psychiatrist with MRCPsych (or equivalent), Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status, and CCT (or equivalent), listed on the GMC Specialist Register.

• Have at least three years’ experience working at Consultant level, with proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams across hospital or community settings.

• Demonstrate a track record of contributing to service change and improvement at a senior level.

• Possess strong leadership and influencing skills, delivering high-quality, innovative, patient-centred care.

• Exhibit a flexible, positive, team-oriented approach and a commitment to values-based, evidence-based practice.

• Have completed, or be willing to undertake, leadership and management training.

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What we will give you in return

You will be supported to thrive through structured career conversations, full training, and pathways into senior clinical and leadership roles.

Benefits include:

• Free on-site parking

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Additional birthday leave

• Enhanced maternity pay

• Contributory pension scheme

• Flexible benefits, including gym membership, IT technology schemes, and healthcare cash plan

• Access to development and training opportunities

• Sponsorship for professional qualifications via an Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

• Leadership and management development programmes

• Long service awards

• Refer-a-friend bonuses