Lead Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist

Are you an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist looking to move forward in your career? If so, join The Farndon Unit as the Medical Lead where you will provide care for women with complex mental health needs. What Youll Be Doing As our Medical Lead, you will play a central role in driving clinical excellence and ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care. Provide strategic leadership, ensuring consistent, highquality standards of care and fidelity to our clinical model. Champion a positive, recoveryfocused and traumainformed culture, influencing practice across the unit. Represent the medical team at governance meetings, service development discussions, and external stakeholder forums. Oversee medical input into audits, QI projects and service evaluations, ensuring learning and improvement are embedded in everyday practice. Offer professional leadership, supervision, and support to Consultant Psychiatrists and Associate Specialists within the service. Coordinate medical cover, ensuring safe, effective clinical staffing across the unit.

Job description

Are you an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist looking to move forward in your career? If so, join The Farndon Unit as the Medical Lead where you will provide care for women with complex mental health needs.

What You’ll Be Doing

As our Medical Lead, you will play a central role in driving clinical excellence and ensuring the service continues to deliver safe, effective, compassionate care.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification. Full GMC registration with licence to practice. MRCPsych or MRCPsych equivalent approved by the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Section 12(2) approval, Approved Clinician status. Experience necessary for gaining UK CCT. Experience in psychiatric rehabilitation. Previous Consultant Psychiatrist experience with leadership skills. Service development or governance involvement.

About the employer

Elysium Healthcare is a well-established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees, offering a unique approach to care delivery. Operating over 90 services across England and Wales, Elysium provides a range of services, including Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities, Autism, and Children's services. They are part of Ramsay Health Care, a global network in 10 countries, employing over 86,000 people. Elysium Healthcare is committed to safer recruitment practices and is a Disability Confident employer, dedicated to inclusive and accessible hiring processes. All employees are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of service users.