Visa Note
Important Notice: While this employer offers a Certificate of Sponsorship for eligible international candidates, applicants must verify their specific visa eligibility requirements with the employer directly. The Certificate of Sponsorship is subject to UK Visas and Immigration regulations and individual circumstances. International applicants should ensure they meet all necessary requirements before applying.
Job Overview
This post offers an exciting opportunity for an ambitious psychiatrist to support a unique NHS trust going through transition and maintaining safe and effective services during this period. Post-holders will be expected to take on an active role providing consultant leadership and oversight that could include inpatient care, recovery service, early intervention in psychosis service, crisis resolution and home treatment as well as adult (ageless) community mental health services.
Special Offer
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 candidates appointed to this role. This is a unique opportunity to support you as you take the next step in your career subject to qualifying conditions.
Key Job Details
Company: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location: St. Mary’s Hospital (IOW), Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG
Salary: £99,532 to £131,964 per year
Contract: Permanent, Full-time
Reference Number: 348-IOW-6352
Closing Date: 23 January 2026
About the Employer
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.
Our Vision
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 Transformation
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.
Our Values
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. Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Main Duties of the Job
Consultants will use their skills and expertise to achieve the best care for service users, with a focus on providing supervision and oversight of the team and the assessment and management of complexity and severity.
Clin Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include ensuring evidence-based practice and service user-centred recovery principles to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all interventions provided by the MDT to promote recovery and independence. You will focus on the management of service users presenting with the greatest complexity and severity, working with a small case load to respond flexibly and timely to the needs of the most unwell and urgent cases.
Risk Management
You will be responsible for managing complex information, making formulations using a biopsychosocial model, and ensuring appropriate and effective engagement with carers and ward teams. The role includes management of risk and weighing complex risk information to deliver care that is in the best interests of the recovery of the individual.
Clinical Leadership
As a Consultant, you will provide education, supervision and oversight over the caseload with consultant MDT/triage meetings. You will ensure the service works in line with care planning, risk management and safeguarding policies while maintaining a focus on outcomes, both in terms of clinical outcomes and patient experience.
Person Specification
Essential Qualifications:
• Full Registration with the General Medical Council
• MRCPsych or recognised equivalent
• Eligible for inclusion in the Specialist Register or within 12 months of CCT at time of interview. CCT in general adult psychiatry.
• Approved under section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983.
How to Apply
Apply Instructions: Apply via NHS Jobs website.
International Applicants Checklist:
• Verify your eligibility for Certificate of Sponsorship with the employer
• Ensure you have current UK professional registration
• Prepare criminal record certificates from countries where you have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years
• Contact the hiring manager with any specific sponsorship-related questions
• Ensure all required documents are uploaded with your application
Additional Information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Details
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. 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 subject to this requirement.
UK Registration Requirements
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website for overseas health professionals. This is a mandatory requirement for all clinical positions within the NHS.
Contact Information
For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager: Medical Workforce
Email: medicalworkforce@southernhealth.nhs.uk
Phone: Not provided
Employer Website: https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/
Equal Opportunities
We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on any grounds which are not justified by objective factors.
Further Information
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. This role will be eligible for a Golden Hello payment which consists of £30,000 made in 4 payments over a 2-year period. Please note that all applications must be submitted through the official NHS Jobs portal to be considered.
Privacy Notice
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s privacy notice can be viewed at https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/your-care-and-information/your-information-your-rights/navigate/40954/4918. Your personal data will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018.