A specialist healthcare service is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join an Adolescent Inpatient Eating Disorder ward. This is a part-time role of 15 hours per week (2 days).

The service provides exceptional care across a range of mental health issues, including eating disorders. The multidisciplinary team delivers personalised treatment programs within a calm, therapeutic environment.

What you’ll be doing

You will join a compassionate team committed to patient wellbeing, using a personalised, evidence-based approach to support recovery.

Key responsibilities include:

• Conducting comprehensive assessments and developing treatment plans alongside the multidisciplinary team.

• Leading ward rounds, MDT meetings, and overseeing complex clinical cases, including risk management.

• Supporting patients and families with treatment planning, relapse prevention, and recovery.

• Providing supervision to junior staff and contributing to service quality, compliance, and improvement initiatives.

• Collaborating with site leadership to enhance service delivery and patient experience.

Further details are available in the job description.

What you’ll bring to the role

The role is rewarding but challenging, requiring resilience, empathy, and strong clinical leadership.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a fully registered medical practitioner with the GMC, hold a licence to practise, and be on the Specialist Register for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

• Hold Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician status.

• Have experience managing complex cases of eating disorders in an inpatient adolescent setting.

• Demonstrate strong clinical leadership, risk management expertise, and the ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.

What we will give you in return

You will be supported to succeed and develop through structured career conversations, training, and opportunities into senior clinical and leadership roles.

Benefits include:

• Free on-site parking

• Supplemented meals

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro-rata)

• Additional birthday leave

• Enhanced maternity pay

• Contributory pension scheme

• Flexible benefits, including gym membership, IT technology schemes, and healthcare cash plan

• Access to development and training opportunities

• Sponsorship for professional qualifications via an Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

• Leadership and management development programmes

• Long service awards

• Refer-a-friend bonuses