Job Description

Job Introduction

HMP Chelmsford are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Psychiatrist to join our healthcare team. As a Psychiatrist within the prison service, you will play a critical role in providing high-quality mental health care to individuals in a challenging yet rewarding environment. You will be responsible for diagnosing, treating, and managing the mental health needs of prisoners, many of whom may have complex and severe mental health conditions.


Main Responsibilities

Medical Assessment and Clinical Care:

Conduct medical assessments and provide excellent clinical care, assessment, and treatment to patients on the caseload onsite.

Case Formulation:

Formulate complex cases involving both medical and psychiatric needs.

Strategic Participation and Leadership:

Actively participate in shaping the strategic direction of the mental health service, lead senior mental health clinicians in service development, and provide clinical supervision.

Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Collaboration:

Work within the MDT to review referrals, determine appropriate treatment plans, conduct risk assessments, and engage in complex case reviews.

MDT Meetings:

Attend clinical MDT meetings and participate in discussions regarding high-risk patients.

Treatment Setting Discussions:

Engage in multidisciplinary discussions to determine the most appropriate treatment settings for patients.

Guideline Implementation:

Implement clinical guidelines and best practices.

Prescribing and Medication Management:

Prescribe medications beyond the usual psychiatric formulary and appropriately monitor medications in line with NICE guidelines.

Service Values Promotion:

Promote key service values including evidence-based treatment, collaborative teamwork, coordinated care, and efficient risk management.

Clinical Performance Oversight:

Collaborate with clinical and operational colleagues to oversee and improve the team's clinical performance.

Service Development:

Work closely with clinical and managerial leaders to improve and develop mental health services.

Please see the job description attached for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

Personal Specification

Registered professional with current registration (GMC) Specialist Registration in either General Adult or Forensic Psychiatry Approved under section 12 (2) of the MHS 1983 Understanding of the complexities of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working Up to date knowledge in the adult psychiatry and PD Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy, and legislation

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.


Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and every-one who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.


Package Description

You will feel valued as a

Psychiatrist

within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

A salary of 120,000 - 130,000 per year depending on experience 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays Company Policy Sick pay Enhanced Maternity Package Life Assurance Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise * An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year