Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 5 sessions per week (plus on-calls)
- Job ref
- 380-MED-26-020-PERM-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £113,565 - £150,569 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/08/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - Centralised Health Based Place of Safety
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job overview
The CHBPoS Consultant will provide Consultant cover and clinical leadership to the CHBPoS.
Working alongside a broad range of clinical and management colleagues, the post holder will be a key link between the operational and clinical roles that sit within KMMH, as well providing leadership to a number of key external interfaces related to patient flow.
Main duties of the job
· Providing Consultant cover for the patients in the CHBPoS
· Providing clinical supervision to resident doctors covering the CHBPoS during the day time.
· Advise on the policies relating to the provision of care by the place of safety service in KMMH.
· Monitor Section 136 activity in relation to demand in the new CHBPoS and consideration of necessary resources.
· Advising on how resources for the CHBPoS should be deployed to maximize quality, patient experience and flow across all areas of the care group. This includes supporting the Acute Clinical Director in cost improvement planning and quality assessing the impact of cost improvement schemes.
· Proactively ensuring that the learning from serious incidents, near misses and complaints are considered in the running of the CHBPoS
· Promoting a culture which values safety, effectiveness and automatic patient / carer engagement, which includes openness and responsibilities under the duty of candour.
Working for our organisation
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For detailed information regarding the role, please refer to the attached job description and person specification. The job description will provide you with the main duties and responsibilities of the role. The person specifications will detail the qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience required for the role.
Our Benefits
Here are just some of our Benefits:
- A Recruitment Bonus of £15,000
- Financial support for relocation of up to £8,000*
- Easy access to inhouse research team and academic opportunity through Kent’s own Medical school
- Generous annual leave and study leave entitlement and access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme
- Holiday of a Lifetime Scheme – Bank your annual leave to save up for that all important extended break
- Flexible working - just ask and we will try to help
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities - We offer doctors at all grades the chance to engage in leadership, educational, research, quality improvement development and seek growth opportunities tailored to their areas of interest
- Free access to an independent counselling service
- Blue Light Card - A discount service for the NHS, with thousands of amazing discounts
- Car lease scheme
- A variety of staff network forums which empower, support and encourage network members and allies, to reflect KMPT values and promote equality and diversity.
*If you would like further information, or to know the full terms of the Recruitment Bonus and/or Relocation Allowance, then please contact our Medical Staffing Team: [email protected]
Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- On the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
- Approved Clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
- Approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- MRCPsych
- Additional clinical qualifications
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Clinical Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Shantala Satisha
- Job title
- Interim Head of Psychiatry - Acute directorate
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584 901 947
- Additional information
Sarah Hodge, General Manager
Email: [email protected]
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