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Consultant Psychiatrist Acute Care Team MOD Inpatient UnitThe closing date is 05 March 2026
The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide expert clinical care and leadership within the Acute Care Team at Parklands Hospital, Basingstoke, with primary responsibility for the dedicated 6bedded Ministry of Defence (MoD) inpatient unit. Working alongside four consultant colleagues, the post holder will deliver comprehensive assessment, treatment, and risk management for serving military personnel and, when required, NHS patients occupying unfilled MoD beds. The role includes direct clinical leadership for a multidisciplinary team supported by specialty and junior doctors, ensuring high quality, recovery focused, and evidence based care.
The post holder will play a key leadership role within the Acute Care service, promoting effective pathway management, safeguarding compliance, governance participation, and high quality clinical standards. Responsibilities include ward reviews, Mental Health Act work, multidisciplinary collaboration, teaching, supervision of trainees, and contribution to service development. The role incorporates 4.5 Direct Clinical Care PAs and 1.5 Supporting Professional Activities, including CPD, teaching and participation in quality improvement. The consultant will join the North and West Hampshire on call rota (approx. 1:25) with optional first or second on call arrangements. This position offers an opportunity to contribute to an innovative and collaborative Trust committed to compassionate, high quality patient care.
Main duties of the jobEnsuring evidence-based practice and user-centred recovery principles are used to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all interventions provided by the team to promote recovery and independence. Focusing on the management of service users presenting with the greatest complexity and severity will necessitate consultants working with relatively small case loads
in order to be able to respond in a flexible and timely way to the needs of the most unwell. With respect to inpatient consultants, the caseload may extend to patients under their care in the hospital at home team in the North Area, or patients on Section 17 leave from Hawthorns 2.
Managing complex information, make formulations using a biopsychosocial model.
Ensuring appropriate and effective engagement with carers.
Management of risk, and weighing complex risk information to deliver care that is in the best interests of the recovery of the individual. Supporting the MDT in this by clear communication, containing anxiety, and maintain hope for the patient.
Ensuring the service works in line with care planning, risk management and safeguarding policies.
Maintaining a focus on outcomes, both in terms of clinical outcomes and patient experience.
Lead on the interface with primary care, and ensure there is an effective interface with the AMHT and CMHTs, and be proactive in resolving problems across pathways.
To elevate any shortfalls in clinical practice in a timely fashion to the Clinical Service Director.
About usHampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job responsibilitiesFurther information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification QualificationsThis post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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