Psychiatry Specialty Doctor

As a Specialty Doctor within the CMHT, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality mental health care. Under the supervision of a Consultant, your responsibilities will include:

o Conducting new assessments and reviews for service users.

o Prescribing and managing treatment plans.

o Contributing to the supervision of team members, junior doctors, and medical students.

o Leading and participating in audits, service evaluations, and quality improvement initiatives.

This position is entirely community-based, offering a hybrid work model that allows for both remote and in-office responsibilities.

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.

We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

We perform well against local and national targets and in our most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.