Medical Psychiatry Consultant - Bank
Job Description
Job summary
The Trust are seeking to recruit consultants to all specialities of psychiatry to the trust medical bank. Opportunities may include 2nd on call rota or 3rd on call rota depending on type of specialities.
The Trust is on a journey to become rated outstanding by the CQC and to ensure its a great place to work, therefore there has never been a better to time to join.
We are a friendly supportive trust, and you will work with an experienced team of professionals to ensure that all patients receive high quality care. As a member of the team, you will have an opportunity to help shape our services and drive change within the organisation
We offer local CPD events such as the JAPS (Joint Academic Psychiatric Seminar) a monthly meeting for trust-wide psychiatrists with a wide range of clinical topics covered. Additionally, we offer an in-house mentoring programme and leadership and management development activities. We are happy to look at supporting those with interests in research, whether a new or ongoing project
The personal wellbeing of our staff is very important, so we put a lot of focus on making sure all our employees are in a good place, feeling positive and happy. As this is bank work, it is on an as and when basis with no guaranteed hours and the local working arrangements will be dependent on the service any one shift is being worked in. You will receive an hourly rate appropriate to post and your salary scale within the NHS.
Main duties of the job
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROLE DOES NOT ATTRACT VISA SPONSORSHIP IN LINE WITH THE INCOME LIMITATIONS ADDED BY UKVI
Successful candidates will have full registration with the GMC, as well as having achieved the appropriate level of competencies to carry out the role you have been employed to do.
Duties are dependent on the nature of the post, include
Carry out psychiatric assessments in a variety of settings working flexibly with other members of the team
Be responsible for the day to day psychiatric and medical care of patients under the care of the Consultant
To maintain adequate written documentation of all medical and psychiatric examination of the patients To maintain a professional and ethical stance towards the patients, their relatives, other team members and other agencies
Deliver evidence-based treatments
The post holder should work flexibly, be accessible and provide appropriate response to patients.
Fieldhead Hospital Wakefield is our Main Hospital Base but you may be required to cover other areas of the wider Trust across Barnsley, Doncaster, Halifax or Dewsbury.
Further details of clinical duties and general duties can be found in the Job Description
About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.
We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.
Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.
Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.
We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.
Job responsibilities
We are a specialist teaching NHS Foundation Trust that provides Community, Mental Health, and Learning Disability Services to the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield. The Trust also provides some medium secure (forensic) services to the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber.Over 1.2 million people live in Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees, and Wakefield across urban and rural communities from a range of diverse backgrounds. We aim to match the communitys needs with locally sensitive and efficient services, and we always keep the person in the centre so that our services are effective and efficient.
We work with other local NHS organisations to provide comprehensive health care to people in our area. We also work closely with local authorities (social care) and with other government departments and voluntary organisations. Working in partnership is very important to us and is vital if we are to continue delivering high-quality services for local people.
Working in partnership also means working with the members of our Foundation Trust, who can have a say in how we run the Trust and how they wish our services to be developed. Around 14,300 local people (including our staff) are members of our Trust.
1. Trust details
South West Yorkshire Mental Health NHS Trust was formed 1st April 2002 and became South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on 1st May 2009. This brought together Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Services within the populations of Wakefield, Kirklees, and Calderdale.
Through Transforming Community Services (TCS) in early 2011 we acquired further services and now include the population of Barnsley for the provision of Mental Health and Learning Disability Services and also provide Community Physical Health Services in Barnsley and Wellbeing Services in some areas of the Trust.
In September 2025, The University of Leeds approved our application based on our strong history of partnership working around student education and research and development. We are now proudly recognised as a Teaching Trust. We formally launched our new name, South West Yorkshire Partnership Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, at our 2025 annual members meeting held on 17 September.
We have an income in excess of £430 million, and our services are provided from approximately 85 sites by more than 4,750 clinical and non-clinical staff and cover a combined population of over 1,200,000. The medium secure services are delivered to a wider geographical area.
Services are commissioned by 2 ICS West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire (the forensic services are commissioned by NHS England through the Area Team) and are delivered primarily on a locality basis with an overall Trust management structure.
We are committed to a clear leadership and management framework with our Trust Board being responsible for the strategic direction of the organisation and professional leadership and development for medical staff being led by our Chief Medical Officer.
The Trust Board is our governing body and is responsible for setting the strategic direction of our organisation. It is made up of executive and non-executive directors. Executive directors are employed full-time by the Trust. Non-executive directors are local people whose wide range of experience and skills contribute to the effective management and accountability of the Trust. They work closely with executive directors to ensure the Trust runs in an open and transparent way, providing high-quality services for local people who need to use them. The Trust Board members are:
Jayne Brown OBE (Chair)
Natalie McMillan (Deputy Chair and Senior Independent Director)
Mark Brooks (Chief Executive)
Dawn Lawson (Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Strategy, Inclusion and Change)
Adrian Snarr (Executive Director of Finance, Estates and Resources)
Prof. Subha Thiyagesh (Chief Medical Officer)
Dr Caroline Johnson (Chief Nurse and Director of Quality and Professions)
Christine Brereton (Chief Peoples Officer)
Adele Fox (Chief Operating Officer)
Mitch Waterman (Appointed University of Leeds Associate Non-Executive Director)
Martin Neeson (Non-Executive Director)
Celia Weldon (Non-Executive Director)
Rokaiya Khan (Non-Executive Director)
Gary Ellis (Non-Executive Director)
Margaret Kitching (Non-Executive Director)
Our management structure is based around care groups which are led by Ms Adele Fox, Chief Operating Officer: These Care Groups are:
Children and Families Care Group .
This will include CAMHS and all general childrens services, except community FCAMHS, as this is aligned to forensic services and the provider collaborative. It will also include the healthcare provision in Urban House, where focussing on the needs of the family is paramount. The supporting infrastructure for this care ...
