Consultant In General Adult; In-Patient Psychiatry

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The closing date is 05 February 2026

Consultant in General Adult (In-patient) Psychiatry

Priestley Unit, Dewsbury and District Hospital, Dewsbury

Substantive, full time, 10 Programmed Activities per week plus on-call

(part time may be considered)

South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust are recruiting for a Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Ward 18 team based at Priestley Unit, Dewsbury and District Hospital, Dewsbury. This role plays a vital part in ensuring our patients receive the care that they need and will be an integral role within the Calderdale and Kirklees acute pathway. This is a well-established 23 bedded mixed gender general adult inpatient unit that is well supported by a specialty doctor and up to 3 resident doctors.

This vacancy is due to the current postholder moving to another post within the Trust. The post is open to all eligible candidates who satisfy the essential criteria of the person specifications in the job description.

This is a full-time post with 10 PAs and attracts 2 additional PAs for flexible working and caseload management that is reviewed every year at Job Planning. There is also on call supplement available.

For the full advert please see the supporting documents attached.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Trust has much to offer as a place to work and Yorkshire has much to offer as a place to live, and throughout you will experience our renowned warm Yorkshire welcome and for the right person an attractive relocation package may be available.

We encourage diversity and understand that everyone's circumstances are unique, we therefore actively encourage any prospective candidates to get in touch, if they have any questions or would like to discuss any aspect of this exciting post, please do not hesitate to contact for a further discussion:

Dr C Bachu, Medical Clinical Lead  / cha

Prof. S Thiyagesh, Chief Medical Officer Tel: (secretary) /

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We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

For full advert, job description and person specification, please see attached supporting documents.

• Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
• Ability to work in and lead team.
• Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement.
• Participated in continuous professional development.
• Participated in research or service evaluation.
• Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
• Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
• Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this pos.
• Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
• Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
• Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and…