Consultant Psychiatrist at South & West CMHT

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and committed Consultant Psychiatrist to join our established South & West Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) on a full-time substantive basis.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a supportive, experienced, and multidisciplinary team that is dedicated to delivering high-quality mental health care and promoting recovery for adults across the local community.

Based at Fieldhead Business Centre, St Martin's Avenue, Bradford, you will provide specialist psychiatric leadership to a diverse caseload of working-age adults with complex mental health needs.

Closing Date: 27th September 2026

Shortlisting Date: WC 28th September 2026

Interview Date: 15th October 2026

As Consultant Psychiatrist within South & West CMHT, you will be responsible for the assessment and medical review of patients, providing clinical leadership across the multidisciplinary team, and supporting service users through recovery-focused care.

The role includes outpatient clinics, multidisciplinary case reviews, home visits, Mental Health Act assessments, tribunal reporting, and liaison with primary care and partner services.

You will work closely with a highly skilled team including nurses, social workers, psychologists, occupational therapists, support workers, and trainee doctors to deliver holistic, person-centred care.

You will supervise junior doctors and nurse prescribers, contribute to teaching and training, participate in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activities, and play a key role in shaping future service developments.

With dedicated Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) time for CPD, leadership, research, and service improvement, this post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a progressive and forward-thinking organisation that values innovation, collaboration, and clinical excellence.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

Core Values

• We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
• We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
• We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

Benefits

• We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
• Increase mileage rates for > 4500
• A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
• A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
• Plus many more.
• We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Rashmi Dixon Job title: Clinical Director Email address: Rashmi.Dixon@bdct.nhs.uk