Consultant in Older Adult CMHT Psychiatry
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Saltaire, BD18 3LD
Salary
£113,565 to £150,569
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
6 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of older adults? Join our dynamic Community Mental Health Team as a Consultant in Old Age Ps...
The role involves comprehensive clinical responsibilities, including assessing new referrals, conducting medical reviews, and participating in multidisciplinary meetings. The consultant will undertake home visits when necessary, contribute to case reviews, and provide expert advice to GPs, liaison teams, and hospitals. Additional duties include preparing reports for mental health tribunals, supporting research projects, supervising nurse prescribers, and participating in emergency assessments as part of the on-call rota. The post also encompasses involvement in teaching, clinical audit, service evaluation, and maintaining accurate clinical records, ensuring high standards of patient care and professional practice.
Closing Date: 6th September 2026
Shortlisting Date: w/c 7th September 2026
Interview Date: 18th September 2026
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 4500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Training & Qualifications
Essential
- Certificate of Completion of Training in General Adult Psychiatry (ST6 trainees should be within six months of attainment at the time of the interview) or CESR equivalent.
- Inclusion on the Specialist Register or eligibility for inclusion
- Section 12 (2) MHA 1983 approval and Approved Clinician
Desirable
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- MD, Other professional qualification (e.g. MSc)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Effective leadership skills
- Ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users and their families/carers.
- Ability to supervise junior staff
- Awareness of the funding arrangements in the NHS and recent NHS developments
- Ability to interpret published research and to apply research findings to clinical practice.
Desirable
- Experience of involvement in service development and/or reconfiguration
- Practical experience of research
- Sympathetic to the Trust's mission
Experience
Essential
- Experience in Older Age Psychiatry
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective.
- Experience to a level allowing recognition of trainer status by the Royal College of Psychiatrist.
- Experience in teaching undergraduates & postgraduates
- Evidence of experience in medical audit and understanding of principles of clinical governance
- Practical experience of Clinical Audit
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
Desirable
- Teaching/presentation experience (e.g. conference presentation, EBM, research experience).
Other
Essential
- Ability to exercise effective leadership in a multi-disciplinary team
- Understanding of importance of multi-disciplinary service provision and the care programme approach
- Understanding of and ability to deliver care in collaboration with service users to promote recovery.
- Sensitivity to needs of different ethnic and minority groups.
- Awareness of gender issues in the service provision
- Highly effective communication skills.
- Participate in Continuous Professional Development
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
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First seen
17 August 2026
Last checked
19 August 2026
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