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Lead Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Elysium Healthcare

Newark

Salary

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Training post

No

Trust type

Acute

Posted

4 days ago

About the role

Are you an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist looking to move forward in your career? If so, join The Farndon Unit as the Medical Lead where you will provide care for women with complex mental health needs. What Youll Be Doing As our Medical Lead, you will play a central role in driving clinical excellence and ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care. Provide strategic leadership, ensuring consistent, highquality standards of care and fidelity to our clinical model. Champion a positive, recoveryfocused and traumainformed culture, influencing practice across the unit. Represent the medical team at governance meetings, service development discussions, and external stakeholder forums. Oversee medical input into audits, QI projects and service evaluations, ensuring learning and improvement are embedded in everyday practice. Offer professional leadership, supervision, and support to Consultant Psychiatrists and Associate Specialists within the service. Coordinate medical

Lead Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Elysium Healthcare

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As a Lead Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at Elysium Healthcare in Newark, you will be working primarily at The Farndon Unit, providing care for women with complex mental health needs. The role involves leading clinical excellence, influencing practice, representing the medical team in various settings, overseeing audits, and providing professional leadership to consultants and specialists. You will join a dedicated team, working closely with psychiatrists, specialists, and a multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused, and trauma-informed care. Responsibilities include working with patients for the best treatment outcomes, building positive relationships with stakeholders, undertaking psychiatric assessments, and providing evidence at hearings. The role includes 1 in 8 on-call duties providing remote support. Benefits include a competitive salary, car allowance, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and growth.

Elysium Healthcare is an established and agile company with over 8,000 employees, providing mental health, neurological, learning disabilities, and autism services across England and Wales. As part of Ramsay Health Care, Elysium Healthcare is connected to a global network across 10 countries with over 86,000 employees globally. The company values the welfare of its staff and service users, ensuring an inclusive recruitment process as a Disability Confident employer. Elysium Healthcare offers a variety of benefits to its employees, emphasizing personal development and a balance between work and personal life. Employees enjoy opportunities for career development and training, medical indemnity cover, and access to wellbeing and lifestyle support platforms. Elysium follows safer recruitment practices, requiring a DBS disclosure from all candidates to safeguard the welfare of service users.

Person specification

Essential

MBBS or equivalent medical qualification, full GMC registration with a license to practice, MRCPsych or equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status, clinical training and experience required for UK CCT, experience in psychiatric rehabilitation settings, experience as a Consultant Psychiatrist with leadership abilities.