Consultant Psychiatrist at General Adult North CMHT

Job overview

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and committed Consultant to join an established team as a full-time substantive Consultant Psychiatrist to work as part of the North Community Mental Health Team, in a place where your team values you.  We want someone who is a changemaker so come join us to help us reshape the future to work within a team based at New Mill, Shipley. You will work alongside an expanding, engaged, supportive and passionate multidisciplinary team, offering assessment, treatment and care for patients with time limited and/or complex mental health disorders.

Closing Date: 1st November 2026

Shortlisting Date: WC 2nd November 2026

Interview Date: 12th November 2026

Main duties of the job

As Consultant Psychiatrist in our General Adult Community Mental Health Team at New Mill, you’ll lead on clinical assessments, treatment planning, and multidisciplinary reviews for adults with complex mental health needs. Your role will include outpatient clinics, home visits, tribunal reporting, and emergency assessments under the Mental Health Act.

You’ll provide supervision to junior doctors, contribute to service development, and actively participate in teaching, audit, and quality improvement. With dedicated time for CPD and leadership responsibilities, this is a rewarding opportunity to shape care delivery and drive innovation within a supportive and forward-thinking team.

Working for our organisation

• Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

• Increase mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.
• We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.