Job summary

Main area
Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities

Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract
Permanent

Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week

Job ref
444-7184037-BL

Employer
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Employer type
NHS

Site
Brooklands Hospital

Town
Marston Green

Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 per annum

Salary period
Yearly

Closing
29/05/2025 23:59

Consultant Psychiatrist in Intellectual Disabilities-Forensic & Autism

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull. Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services.

We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.

Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.

PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.

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Job overview

This is a new combined post as a Consultant Psychiatrist within the Forensic Assessment Consultation, Training and Treatment (FACTT) Service and Onyx ward, a newly commissioned 7-bed low secure autism inpatient ward. FACTT provides community forensic services for adults with Intellectual Disability and/or Autism to minimise offending and protect public safety, avoid unnecessary hospital admissions, and prison sentences and support safe and timely discharges.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of the multi-disciplinary team of staff working within the FACTT Service. The Trust is keen to continue to develop community forensic services, with the aim of avoiding hospital admissions, where possible and safe to do so. Part of the role will also involve cover of Onyx Ward a purpose built 7 bedded low secure ward for autistic adults. The post-holder is expected to take part in a shared out-of-hours rota, which includes Brooklands Hospital.

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services. CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme. We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees. We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.

There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a just a snapshot:

• NHS pension scheme


• Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics


• Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme


• Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring


• Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline


• Staff networks and support groups


• Teaching opportunities


• Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details of the post please consult the attached job description and person specification. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service. The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.

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Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, The post holder will be part of the multi-disciplinary team of staff working within the FACTT Service. The Trust is keen to continue to develop community forensic services, with the aim of avoiding hospital admissions, where possible and safe to do so.
Part of the role will also involve cover of Onyx Ward a purpose built 7 bedded low secure ward for autistic adults.
The post-holder is expected to take part in a shared out-of-hours rota, which includes Brooklands Hospital.

Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we provide all-age mental health services for a population of around one million in Coventry and Warwickshire. We also provide learning disability and autism, and community paediatric services.
CWPT is a teaching Trust and has been involved in the development of Warwick University Medical School since it began. We provide placements for medical students, and medics from CWPT contribute to the academic programme.
We are proud of our involvement in postgraduate medical education. We have trainees on rotation at all levels, including speciality trainees from the West Midlands School of Psychiatry, trainees from the West Midlands GP training scheme and Foundation trainees.
We are forward-thinking and always seeking to improve, with a Quality Improvement approach to service development.
There are lots of benefits to joining CWPT. Here is a just a snapshot:
+ NHS pension scheme
+ Salary sacrifice scheme with discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme, and savings on home and electronics
+ Access to a lease car and vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
+ Coaching and mentoring, shadowing, and reciprocal mentoring
+ Excellent wellbeing support, including in-house counselling service, wellbeing guides, and 24-hour confidential helpline
+ Staff networks and support groups
+ Teaching opportunities
+ Bespoke research and innovation department closely linked to local universities, and leading national studies on trauma, psychosis and autism