• Job Description

  Req#: C9270-25-0410?language=en&page=1148&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  This exciting new post offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership across NHFT Secured Services and to deliver high-quality trauma-informed clinical care within an integrated mental health team, based at HMP Peterborough. The post provides the opportunity to gain experience in medical leadership and management, to be involved with research, and to work flexibly.

  We are offering a £40,000 welcome bonus to the successful candidate, paid over the course of your first two years in post.

  Main duties of the job

  The successful candidate will provide care for patients reaching the threshold for secondary services in HMP Peterborough (a privately managed local category B men's and closed women's prison with capacity for 944 males and 360 females includes 12 bedded Mother and Baby unit). They will work closely with the mental health team in HMP Peterborough, providing medical leadership, assessments, input into multi-professional decision making, treatment and reviews, and support the transfer of patients to secure hospital where required.

  About us

  NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

  NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

  Details

  Date posted

  05 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Consultant

  Salary

  £105,504 to £139,882 a year pa

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  270-MED454

  Job locations

  HMP Peterborough

  Saville Road

  Peterborough

  PE3 7PD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more details please find attached the full job description or please call the service. Please note this job description is currently with the Royal College of Psychiatry for approval

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  For more details please find attached the full job description or please call the service. Please note this job description is currently with the Royal College of Psychiatry for approval

  Person Specification

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • oRoyal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
  • oRegistration with a relevant professional body
  • oBroad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
  • oExperience and knowledge of compassionate leadership, skills to influence behaviour and culture, and foster collaborative working within and between teams
  • oExperience of co-production
  • oFamiliarity with tools for effective clinical governance, continuity, development and growth of psychiatry provision across NHFT secured services
  • oAbility to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries, organizations and systems to build effective partnerships and innovation in service delivery

  Behaviours and Values

  Essential

  • oWilling 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.
  • oWilling 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
  • oReliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
  • oApproachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.
  • oAble to lead with compassion, to demonstrate integrity, and to motivate, inspire and empower both individual colleagues and teams, fostering a culture in which hope, kindness, resilience, and excellence thrive.

  Skills and Abilties

  Essential

  • oAbility to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
  • oAbility 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
  • oExcellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
  • oA 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.
  • oAbility to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
  • oSound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
  • oAbility to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
  • oAbility 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

  Person Specification

  Knowledge and Experience

  Essential

  • oRoyal College of Psychiatrists AAC and Section 12 approval
  • oRegistration with a relevant professional body
  • oBroad clinical experience and current clinical expertise
  • oExperience and knowledge of compassionate leadership, skills to influence behaviour and culture, and foster collaborative working within and between teams
  • oExperience of co-production
  • oFamiliarity with tools for effective clinical governance, continuity, development and growth of psychiatry provision across NHFT secured services
  • oAbility to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures and ways of working, boundaries, organizations and systems to build effective partnerships and innovation in service delivery

  Behaviours and Values

  Essential

  • oWilling 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.
  • oWilling 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
  • oReliable and accessible to colleagues within Secured Services, the Medical Directorate, and across NHFT.
  • oApproachable and able to demonstrate empathy, a willingness to listen to the views of colleagues, an open communication style, and receptivity to feedback.
  • oAble to lead with compassion, to demonstrate integrity, and to motivate, inspire and empower both individual colleagues and teams, fostering a culture in which hope, kindness, resilience, and excellence thrive.

  Skills and Abilties

  Essential

  • oAbility to provide trauma-informed clinical care, including when faced with challenging behaviour and the constraints of secured settings.
  • oAbility 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
  • oExcellent interpersonal, communication, and compassionate leadership skills
  • oA 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.
  • oAbility to collaborate effectively with colleagues including those working for subcontracted services and across other disciplines.
  • oSound judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complexity
  • oAbility to gather and assimilate data from across secured services to support effective clinical governance and quality improvement of psychiatry service provision
  • oAbility 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

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  HMP Peterborough

  Saville Road

  Peterborough

  PE3 7PD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

  Address

  HMP Peterborough

  Saville Road

  Peterborough

  PE3 7PD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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