# Consultant Psychiatrist - Eating Disorders

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Chelmsford, Essex
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £180,000
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist to join our team at Priory Hospital Chelmsford, located in Essex. The successful candidate will play a key part in patient recovery, supporting the assessment and delivery of tailored treatment plans while ensuring dignity, respect, and high standards of care.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Undertake comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including diagnosis, risk assessments, and development of individualised treatment plans for patients with complex mental health conditions.

- Provide ongoing medical leadership and clinical oversight, reviewing patients' progress, evaluating treatment outcomes, and adjusting care plans.

- Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to deliver holistic, person-centred care and support patients throughout their recovery.

- Lead on medication management and prescribing, ensuring appropriate monitoring of treatment effectiveness and potential side effects.

- Contribute to clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, and service development, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and regulatory requirements.

- Maintain accurate and timely clinical documentation, including assessments, treatment plans, and discharge summaries.

- Build positive therapeutic relationships with patients and their families, involving them in treatment decisions and promoting shared decision-making.

- Provide clinical supervision, guidance, and support to colleagues within the multidisciplinary team.

**Skills, Knowledge & Expertise**

- Essential: MRCPsych (or equivalent qualification), CCT (or equivalent), and inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register.

- Section 12(2) approval and Approved Clinician status are also essential.

- Desirable: experience working within mental health services, managing patients with complex psychiatric needs, and providing clinical leadership.

**Benefits**

- Enhanced maternity pay

- Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day's annual leave

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits, including reduced rates and access to new schemes, such as gym membership and private healthcare

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- MRCPsych
- CCT
- GMC Specialist Register
- Section 12(2) approval
- Approved Clinician status

### Nice to have
- experience working within mental health services
- managing patients with complex psychiatric needs
- clinical leadership

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