Consultant Psychiatrist

We don't just talk about putting employees first. We know that Priory wouldn't exist without their combined energy, expertise, and effort. So we invest heavily in training, provide first-class support, promote collaborative teamwork, and give everyone on our team the opportunities and resources to achieve their full potential.

Main duties of the job

We provide services for local NHS patients and out-of-area patients from the NHS. As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the staff who choose to work with us have an excellent and supportive experience. We are a warm, welcoming, and friendly team who all share the same goal - we are all committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for the people who use our service. And we do this with care, compassion, and kindness embedded through everything that we do.

About us

Priory Hospital Arnold is a purpose-built 52-bedded acute mental health hospital, comprising two adult acute wards and two Psychiatric Intensive Care Units. At Priory Hospital Arnold, our main focus is on patient experience right from the point of referral through to discharge and follow-on support.

Job responsibilities

The treatment programmes at Priory Arnold aim to optimise patient recovery and potential by treating and minimising risk behaviours and by enabling them to develop psychological/emotional, social, and occupational skills and resilience.

All interventions aim to help the patient to understand the effect of their behaviour on others, to help them to manage the impact of external triggers on their behaviour, and ultimately to promote the concept of recovery. These interventions include:

• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)
• Mental health awareness group
• Individual and group psychological therapy
• Drug and alcohol programme
• Problem-solving therapy

Person Specification Qualifications

• Full registration with a licence to practise with the GMC is required. For more information visit .
• Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from the date of interview or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR).
• Candidates must have a higher medical qualification (MRCPsych or equivalent).

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.