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Consultant Psychiatrist - HMP Lincoln

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Lincoln, LN2 4BD

Salary

£113,565 to £150,569

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Not specified

Closing date

2 September 2026

2 days left

Job description

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Consultant Psychiatrist to cover psychiatric needs across HMP Lowdham Grange and HMP ...

To provide high quality, trauma informed psychiatric care within integrated mental health teams in prisons. The post holder will deliver assessment, diagnosis and treatment of people with severe mental illness, personality disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions and complex comorbidity in custodial settings, ensuring equivalence of care with community services.

You will also have the opportunity to supervise senior trainees from the regional higher psychiatric training programme in Forensic Psychiatry covering Rampton Hospital, Arnold Lodge and Wathwood Medium secure units and Nottingham as well as Derby low secure and community forensic services.

NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county - as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person-centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our 'outstanding' rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.

Behaviours and Values

Essential

  • Willing to ensure the development, maintenance, and dissemination of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD, training and development programmes.
  • Willing to comply with professional codes of practice and maintain up to date knowledge of legislation, national and local policies, and issues in relation to psychiatry and wider mental health through engagement in health and justice clinical networks and communities of practice
  • Reliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
  • Approachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

  • Royal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
  • Inclusion on (or eligibility for) GMC Specialist Register
  • Approved Clinical status
  • Evidence of CPD, Appraisal and re-validation compliance
  • Broad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
  • Ability to provide compassionate, trauma informed care in secure settings

Desirable

  • Prison or forensic psychiatry experience
  • Experience in neurodiversity / ADHD
  • Teaching, leadership or service development experience

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • The ability to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
  • The ability to prioritize effectively, to work in a flexible way, and to respond to change to support the needs of patients and continuity of psychiatry provision across NHFT Secured Services
  • Excellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
  • A growth mindset and willingness to learn and teach in a constructive manner, taking on board the ideas of others and working within a leadership structure.
  • The ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
  • Sound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
  • The ability to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
  • The ability to communicate information in a range of formats including one-to-one meetings, formal and informal meetings, written reports and electronic communication including small databases.
  • Ability to work effectively across multiple sites.

How to apply

Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.

Provenance

Source

NHS Jobs

First seen

20 August 2026

Last checked

24 August 2026

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About the employer

NHF
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

NHS organisation

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