Academic Psychiatrist

HCRG Care Group is seeking a dedicated and compassionate Psychiatrist to join our team at HMP Chelmsford. As a Psychiatrist within our prison service, you will play a critical role in providing high-quality mental health care to individuals in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

• Conduct medical assessments and provide excellent clinical care, assessment, and treatment to patients on the caseload onsite.
• Formulate complex cases involving both medical and psychiatric needs.
• Actively participate in shaping the strategic direction of the mental health service, lead senior mental health clinicians in service development, and provide clinical supervision.
• Work within the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to review referrals, determine appropriate treatment plans, conduct risk assessments, and engage in complex case reviews.
• Implement clinical guidelines and best practices.
• Promote key service values including evidence-based treatment, collaborative teamwork, coordinated care, and efficient risk management.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational colleagues to oversee and improve the team's clinical performance.

• Specialist Registration in either General Adult or Forensic Psychiatry.
• Up-to-date knowledge in adult psychiatry and personality disorders.
• Awareness of current issues in mental health service provision, policy, and legislation.

• A competitive salary of £120,000 - £130,000 per year depending on experience.
• 25 Days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays.
• Company Policy Sick pay.
• Life Assurance.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies.
• Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development.
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas.

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services, and adult social care and wellbeing services. Our values are simple: we care, we think, we do. We prioritize safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults we work with, and we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices.