Job Description

The Trust is seeking a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist to join the divisional team in the consultant role for low secure services based at Pineview and adult forensic community services at the Humber Centre.



Together, with colleagues in the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will be expected to clinically lead multidisciplinary mental health teams delivering mental health services to the inpatients at low secure and to a small caseload of outpatients within the community Forensic team and for the wider responsibilities of the forensic service locally.



To undertake the assessment and management of complex cases referred and to care plan, to provide treatment formulation and guidance on evidence-based treatment and effectiveness. Hold responsible clinician status, and be an approved clinician as defined within the Mental Health Act. The post holder will undertake assessments (Including access assessments) and management of patients within the identified areas.

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Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.



We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.



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The Consultant Forensic Psychiatrists within the service work to a model such that each has primary responsibility for one clinical area within the Humber Centre inpatient provision, community and prisons, with opportunities available within one, or more, of the other arms of the service in addition. The unit(s) to which consultants are affiliated is initially fixed but may alter as the service evolves to meet changes in demand. The successful candidate will provide input to the inpatients at low secure and to a small caseload of outpatients within the community Forensic team. The post holder may be required to support sessional cover to the prison estate and forensic community service.



They will be required to be approved under Section 12 (2) of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended) and hold an Approved Clinician (AC) status.



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