Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Helth
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed term 9 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-LD-20314-A
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre
- Town
- Brighton
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - Neurodevelopment Service
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Come and join us
We’re looking for people who share our values of compassion, accountability and optimism to help us provide high quality care for the patients, carers, families and communities we serve. We specialise in NHS mental health and learning disability services and we’re proud to make a difference every day.
At SPFT we put people first. We’ll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. You’ll have opportunities to learn, grow and gain new experiences to support your career, with access to lifelong learning and professional development.
We actively promote flexible working and understand how important work life balance is, especially in healthcare. Whether it’s part time hours, hybrid working or flexible start and finish times, we’ll explore what works for you and the role.
We recognise that AI is becoming part of daily life and you may choose to use it to help prepare your application. We welcome innovation but ask that anything you submit reflects your own abilities, experience and voice. AI can support how you describe your skills and experience, but it should never replace your own words as we want to get to know you.
We’re shaping a workplace where ideas are encouraged, technology supports you and everyone has a voice in how we improve. If that sounds like the kind of organisation you want to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our Neurodevelopment Service (NDS) covering West Sussex, East Sussex and Brighton (based at East Brighton Community Mental Health Centre) providing leadership to deliver high-quality, person-centred care to adults with a suspected diagnosis of Autism; assessment and treatment for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) (Brighton and East Sussex only) and Tics and Tourette's. This is a new post. The post was developed to meet the need of transferring young people with ADHD from CAMHS being referred to the adult NDS service and became available due to further funding being given to the service for this cohort of patients.
Main duties of the job
· The remit of the consultant psychiatrist is to work as part of the MDT and to:
ü Assess patients for suspected neurodevelopmental conditions
ü Prescribe medication for patients newly diagnosed with ADHD, titrate as required and handover prescribing to GPs as per established shared care protocols, providing specialist follow-up as outlined in NICE guidelines.
ü Supervise and support the Team’s non-medical prescribers
ü Take a lead role in the MDT hub meeting and weekly whole team meeting
ü Build and nurture collaborative working relationships with colleagues in other services and divisions
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been commissioned to provide Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic Services for adults (NDS). The service sits within the Specialist Services Division and interfaces with other specialist services and other geographically based divisions, including acute and urgent care services. Further to a process of consultation, NDS now operates Pan-Sussex across three hubs. The service has been operating a weekly MDT clinic since 2009. In September 2013 the clinic was expanded to include Clinical Nurse Specialists and Clinical Specialist OTs who all work in a diagnostic capacity. The Neuropsychiatry input to the service is provided by senior clinical and honorary clinical academic psychiatrists who are all leading experts in the Neurodevelopmental field. The leadership team for NDS includes a Consultant Psychologist (Clinical lead for NDS / TCAT) and a Consultant Nurse (Diagnostic Pathway Lead) and Operational Service Manager. All clinical staff receive dedicated administrative support to optimise clinical capacity.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Knowledge and experience in the field would be an advantage, but training and support is available from the team’s Neuropsychiatrists who are leading national experts.
For detailed job description and main responsibilities please read the attached job description.
Person specification
Eligibility
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
- Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Transport
Essential criteria
- Holds and will use valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative.
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & 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
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
- Ability to work in and lead team
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
- Ability to work in a participatory way so that shared decision making and conversations around formulation/diagnosis and ongoing care are a collaborative endeavour with the people who access our 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
- Francesca Evans
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Jess Eccles, Consultant Psychiatrist - [email protected]
Viki Baker, Associate Clinical Director - [email protected]]
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