• Job Description

  Req#: C9173-25-0253?language=en&page=607&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  We are delighted to recruit a Locum Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to provide consultant leadership to the Award-winning Red Kite View Adolescent inpatient unit in West Yorkshire. The service supports young people experiencing significant psychiatric, psychological or emotional problems that are causing them interpersonal, educational and social functioning difficulties. The service team will work closely with community mental health teams and other services across West Yorkshire to supporting young peoples' mental health including the NHS, local authorities and third sector providers.

  Main duties of the job

  Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need 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.

  Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives and which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice, and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

  The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

  Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives

  Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work

  Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

  As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here

  About us

  The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

  There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

  We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

  Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

  Details

  Date posted

  07 July 2025

  Pay scheme

  Hospital medical and dental staff

  Grade

  Consultant

  Salary

  £105,504 to £139,882 a year Per Annum

  Contract

  Locum

  Duration

  12 months

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  173-29525-MED

  Job locations

  Red Kite View

  Leeds

  LS12 3QE

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

  • Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
  • Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of consultant contract
  • On-site parking
  • Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
  • Wide-range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

  This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

  As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

  *subject to conditions.

  What you will get:

  • Supportive and friendly colleagues
  • Personalised coaching and mentoring
  • Weekly academic teaching
  • Access to NHS leadership and development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
  • Annual medical leadership development day
  • Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

  Career and pastoral support from consultant colleagues

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

  • Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
  • Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of consultant contract
  • On-site parking
  • Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
  • Wide-range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

  This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

  As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

  *subject to conditions.

  What you will get:

  • Supportive and friendly colleagues
  • Personalised coaching and mentoring
  • Weekly academic teaching
  • Access to NHS leadership and development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
  • Annual medical leadership development day
  • Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

  Career and pastoral support from consultant colleagues

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • MBChB or equivalent medical qualification.
  • Fully registered with GMC and Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
  • Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
  • Approved Doctor under s12
  • Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician status OR able to and committed to achieve with 3 months of appointment

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent knowledge within specialty

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • MBChB or equivalent medical qualification.
  • Fully registered with GMC and Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
  • Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
  • Approved Doctor under s12
  • Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician status OR able to and committed to achieve with 3 months of appointment

  Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent knowledge within specialty

  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

  Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Red Kite View

  Leeds

  LS12 3QE

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  Address

  Red Kite View

  Leeds

  LS12 3QE

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.leedsandyorkpft.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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