Are you an ambitious psychiatrist looking for a role where your leadership truly shapes the future of mental health services? This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a unique NHS trust at a pivotal moment of transformation--helping to maintain safe, effective care while influencing the next chapter of service delivery on the Isle of Wight.
Why This Role?
You'll step into a consultant position with genuine scope to innovate, lead, and make a measurable impact across both acute and community mental health pathways. As the trust transitions to a modern, placebased locality model aligned with the Community Mental Health Framework, your expertise will help drive meaningful change for service users and staff alike.
A Role Shaped Around You
There is flexibility within the job plan, with opportunities to work across both community and acute settings. The final structure will be agreed collaboratively with the Associate Medical Director and service manager to reflect your interests, strengths, and career aspirations.
Join Us and Receive a 30,000 Golden Hello
As part of our commitment to attracting outstanding talent, we are delighted to offer a 30,000 Golden Hello to successful eligible candidates appointed to this Consultant post. This is a unique opportunity to take the next step in your career while receiving a generous financial incentive as a welcome to our Trust. Subject to terms and conditions.
Main Duties
The postholder will provide senior clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team and contribute actively to the Trust's clinical governance, service development, and strategic planning processes.
Key Responsibilities
Work collaboratively with senior clinical colleagues to ensure clarity of professional roles, responsibilities, and accountability for all aspects of patient care.
Promote effective communication within and between teams, ensuring timely and accurate transfer of relevant clinical information.
Support a culture of openness, learning, and continuous improvement, encouraging staff to raise concerns, discuss challenges, and contribute to team decisionmaking.
Ensure that patient care is well coordinated, particularly where responsibilities are shared across services, and that patients know whom to contact regarding their care.
Contribute to the development and maintenance of systems for identifying, assessing, and managing clinical risk within the service.
Participate in regular review of team performance, addressing deficiencies and supporting quality improvement initiatives.
Manage issues relating to conduct, performance, or health of team members in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Respect and value the skills and contributions of all team members, promoting effective multidisciplinary working.
Participate in locality business planning and contribute to wider Trust strategic and service development activities.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 12,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust's community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Full Registration with the General Medical Council
MRCPsych or recognised equivalent
Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 6 months of CCT at time of interview.
Approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Medical Workforce
medicalworkforce@southernhealth.nhs.uk
Hospital Medical and Dental
Consultant
Permanent
Full-Time
348-IOW-12577
St. Mary's Hospital (IOW) Parkhurst Road Newport Isle of Wight PO30 5TG