Consultant in Psychiatry
| Posting date: | 20 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 April 2026 |
| Location: | Sheffield, S47QQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9457-26-0088 |
Summary
You will be able to find a full Job Description and Personal Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply Now to view in Trac. A total of 40 sessions is available across the below services to be mutually agreed with successful applicants through a preferencing process: Maple Ward Ward 4 (New ward name to be confirmed) CMHT North CMHT South Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team Successful applicants will have office accommodation, with IT support for e-mail, internet access and secretarial support. The post holder will be issued with all required IT equipment including a laptop and mobile phone as well as any reasonable adjustments that may be required. Job Planning Successful applicants will be offered flexibly agreed bespoke job plans with a base structure for a full time posting of 7 Direct Clinical Care (DCC) sessions and 3 Supporting Professional activities (SPA) sessions. Consultant On-Call Rota Sheffield Partnerships consultant oncall arrangements are designed to provide clear clinical support and maintain a sustainable worklife balance. The rota is approximately 1 in 24, with roughly one overnight per month and one weekend every five to six months. There is fully staffed firston (FY2 CT3 grade doctor) and secondon (ST4-ST7 or SAS doctor, s12 approved) tier, offering consultants a wellsupported, manageable oncall experience. Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre This pioneering new centre in the Gleadless Valley area of Sheffield is part of a national pilot programme aimed at transforming mental health care in communities. Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is being developed to provide the right care at the right time, closer to home, with a strong focus on prevention and early intervention. It will offer a safe, welcoming space for people to access support before reaching crisis point, helping to reduce the need for inpatient admissions. Open for anyone in the Gleadless and Heeley area, the centre will include safe-space hospitality beds, offering an alternative to hospital-based care. Designed to foster long-term, trusting relationships between patients and staff, and ensure continuity of care whether someone is at home or in crisis, Gleadless and Heeley Neighbourhood Mental Health Centre is one of six pilots across England. As well as a 24/7 mental health centre offering integrated, person-centred support for adults over 18 who have a serious mental illness, the site will include a revamped Terry Wright Community Hall (pictured), and a refreshed Newfield Green Library. The centre is a collaborative project involving Sheffield Partnership, Heeley Plus Primary Care Network, Heeley Trust, Rethink Mental Illness, Synergy VCSE Mental Health Alliance, Sheffield Flourish, and Sheffield City Council. More than 400 local residents, including service users, carers, staff, and community organisations, were involved in developing plans for the centre. Engagement included public meetings, workshops and community group sessions. Maple Ward Maple ward is a male acute mental health inpatient ward which has 17 beds, all of which are individual rooms. Every service user admitted to the ward has a care plan which outlines specific details of the treatment and support they will be offered. This includes a named nurse who will be allocated to each service user. The named nurse will work closely with the service user throughout their time on the ward and will coordinate their plan of care. Service users on the ward have access to a range of professionals, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, support workers and occupational therapists. The team shares its expertise and experience to provide the very best care to our service users. Several rooms at the ward have been specially fitted to provide the best environment for autistic service users. These include controllable RGB lighting, silent alarms, quiet-closing doors, extra soundproofing, and bright carpeted flooring. Community Mental Health Teams The North and South Community Mental Health Teams have a caseload of approximately 1,000 patients each. Each team has patients subject to CTO and conditionally discharged patients, and the consultant will be the RC for an equitable proportion of these patients. The patients we care for include those with psychotic disorders, severe affective disorders, and personality disorders, as well as patients with co-morbid organic and/or neurodevelopmental diagnoses. We provide person-centred care that is strengths based, trauma informed, evidence-based and multidisciplinary. The team is large and diverse. In addition to 2.5 WTE Consultants. Our MDT includes occupational and psychological therapists, peer recovery and support workers, a Physician Associate, Advanced Clinical Practitioner, and an excellent and supportive administration team. We work closely with out acute & crisis pathway colleagues, including the Home Treatment Team, Decisions Unit, AMHP team and the inpatient wards. Community Mental Health services are undergoing transition towards integrated care (including primary care and the voluntary sector). Sheffield Partnership have received significant investment from the Integrated Care Board to modernise and improve its community mental health services as part of the National Framework for Community Mental Health Transformation. Within the CMHT we have moved away from the Care Programme Approach and implementing the Community Framework for Mental Health which includes care co-ordination led by the Multi-disciplinary Team rather than an individual Care Co-ordinator. The Locality CMHT is divided into four MDTs lead by a Clinical Team Manager and aligned to Primary Care Networks and PCMHTs. Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team The Home Treatment Team provides short-term mental health support at home, to avoid people being admitted to hospital and reduce length of stay for people in hospital. The team works across Sheffield and provides intensive support to our service users and their carers where there has been a significant deterioration in a persons mental health. The Home Treatment Team is based at The Longley Centre, together with the Liaison Psychiatry service, and the urgent and crisis service, and some of our inpatient wards. The team undertakes crisis assessments, supports and treats people in the community as an alternative to admission to hospital and promotes timely discharge back into the community.