Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health - EIP

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Specialty Doctor in Adult Mental Health - EIP

The closing date is 24 March 2026

This is a newly created post in Tees EIP. Tees EIP is based across four locations,Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar. The Team provides secondarymental health service input for people experiencing first episode psychosisfrom age 14 years and above. The team receives referrals direct from GPsurgeries via the hub teams and other sources such as Crisis team/ LiaisonPsychiatry/ wards.

The team provides specialist support to patients who maybeexperiencing their first episode of psychosis or at risk of developing a firstepisode of psychosis. The teams can also assess for Autism internally and withsupport from the specialist Autism teams within the trust. Our crisis teams manage the access toinpatient services with support from the intensive home treatment services. The post holder will join a dedicatedmultidisciplinary team and contribute to compassionate and evidence-basedpatient care and service improvement.

The post holder will over four EIP teams across Tees,Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Stockton and Redcar.

The Specialty Doctor will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical expertise for both new and ongoing cases particularly issues around psychopharmacology, diagnosis, risk assessments including liaison with the local GPs and inpatient units.

The post holder is not expected to carry a personalcaseload (ie will not be a care coordinator), the work will be done inconjunction with other team members.

Main duties of the job

• Cllinical duties of post holder
• Medicationreview/monitoring clinic
• Monitoringof physical health of patients on psychotropic medications
• Prescribingand medication management
• PeriodicHome visits.
• MDTmeetings.
• Formulationmeetings.
• Clinicalleadership.
• MentalHealth Act assessments (for section 12 approved)
• To contribute to service improvement/ Audit

About us

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journals Best 100 Places to Work. The trust take a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust.

Psychiatrists are essential contributors to the majority of our mental health teams. Service users expect and are justified to expect collaborative relationships with dedicated psychiatrists who work consistently as part of effective services. The Medical Directorate and Medical Development Team are striving to improve medical workforce recruitment and retention in a variety of ways and the cornerstone of these efforts is The TEWV Charter for the Medical Workforce. (Please see attached Supporting Document).

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for further information on this post. Please note that this job description has not yet been approved by The Royal College and therefore subject to change.

Person Specification Teaching & Training

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Evidence of annual appraisal and commitment to appraisal and revalidation.

Qualifications

• MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
• Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
• At least 4 years postgraduate experience, including at least 2 years in a core psychiatry training programme in UK or abroad
• Approved under S12 of MHA OR able to achieve within 6 months of appointment.
• MRCPsych or equivalent postgraduate qualification.

Clinical Knowledge & Skills

• Good knowledge of psychiatry.
• Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
• Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.

Research, Audit & Quality Improvement

• Has actively participated in clinical audit.
• Shows commitment to quality through knowledge of quality improvement and lean thinking methodology.
• Participated in research and/or service improvement.

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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust