Consultant Forensic or General Adult Psychiatrist

Job summary

At MPFT we pride ourselves on staff wellbeing and development and can we offer you:

• Our SOOTHE resources - supporting staff across the trust with their physical, mental and financial health. In addition to the support offered from our occupational health provider Optima Health.
• Counselling support and lifestyle information with advice on a variety of personal matters
• "In our Gift" providing a platform for your voice to be heard to inform change
• The opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Opportunities for flexible working (depending on the role)
• Career development opportunities and coaching plus access to in house training programs
• Innovative research training program entitled STARS (Supporting the advancement of Research Skills)
• Child Care Vouchers Scheme
• Recognition and engagement through our staff LOVE awards, LOVE long service awards and Staff Engagement Surveys
• NHS discounts available via the Blue Card and Red Guava schemes

Main duties of the job

Are you a forensic consultant psychiatrist or general adult psychiatrist with a special interest in forensics? Here is a great opportunity for you!

We have a unique offer & want to recruit to an established full time consultant post, providing consultancy & clinical leadership within the MH teams in HMP Leeds & HMP Wakefield. Inclusion work in partnership with Practice Plus Group across both prisons; working as part of an integrated healthcare model.

You will have an opportunity to lead & develop the service. The nature of the prisons will offer wonderful opportunities to enrich your clinical & academic skills.

This role will be split across the two prisons on a needs led basis.

HMP Leeds

A Category B adult male remand prison, in the Armley area of Leeds, West Yorkshire. It has a prison population of approx. 1210 prisoners across six residential units, a segregation unit, First Night Centre, Vulnerable Prisoner unit & social care unit.

HMP Wakefield

A Category A (High Secure) men's prison in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It currently has a prison population of around 700.

Nationally, Inclusion provides mental health & drug & alcohol services to over 24 prisons, delivering high quality services. Quality of care is typically rated GOODorVERY GOOD!

About us

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is an award winning organisation with over 9000 employees. We are one of the largest integrated Health and Social Care providers, covering services across North & South Staffordshire, Shropshire, Hampshire, Buckinghamshire, Isle of Wight and Essex.

Demonstrating our strong commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and in context of our objective aligned to the growth of diversity across the workforce; we are particularly seeking applications from individuals who may be from under-represented groups, such as black, Asian or other ethnic groups, individuals with a disability, or LGBTQ+ individuals who meet the specific criteria.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Inclusion is renowned for investing in & supporting our workforce & has astrong ethos of continuous professional development.