Consultant Psychiatrist Male PICU/Medical Director

Job description

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. --- ### **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. --- ### **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. --- ### **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