Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Women\'s Service in Birmingham

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health Foundation Trusts in the country, providing mental health services to a culturally and socially-diverse population. The secure care and offender health programme provides medium and low secure inpatient services for men, women and adolescents across the West Midlands.

We are seeking to recruit a consultant forensic psychiatrist to work within the women's secure service based at Ardenleigh. It is an established service, which provides inpatient services to women from the West Midlands who have complex mental health needs and require treatment in conditions of security. The successful candidate will join two existing Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists in the women's service.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide medical leadership to a multidisciplinary clinical team within a shared leadership framework.
• Deliver excellent clinical care for inpatients to an indicative caseload of 10 patients.
• Contribute as a senior leader to the further development of the service.
• Undertake assessments for women referred to the service and a weekly prison clinic at HMP Foston Hall.
• Work with colleagues within the provider collaborative to support the commissioning and delivery of secure mental health care across the region.

Person Specification:

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice.
• Expected to be approved to act as an approved clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 prior to commencement of post.
• MRCPsych or equivalent.
• Commitment to personal programme of Continuing Professional Development.
• Substantial experience of psychiatry, including working with people suffering from severe mental illness, complex presentations and serious risk behaviours.
• Values a multi-disciplinary, person centred approach to patient care.
• Experience of teaching and training at an undergraduate/postgraduate level.
• Evidence of potential for effective leadership.
• Able to participate in Consultant on-call rota.
• Inclusion on the specialist register for, or within six months of the expected award of a CCST in, forensic psychiatry.
• Experience serving a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic population.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.