Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Locum Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist

The closing date is 21 July 2025

Job summary

We are delighted to recruit a Locum Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist to provide consultant leadership to the Award-winning Red Kite View Adolescent inpatient unit in West Yorkshire. The service supports young people experiencing significant psychiatric, psychological or emotional problems that are causing them interpersonal, educational and social functioning difficulties. The service team will work closely with community mental health teams and other services across West Yorkshire to supporting young peoples' mental health including the NHS, local authorities and third sector providers.

Main duties of the job

Are you committed to providing high quality patient care? We need you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health.

Here are Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) we are an organisation committed to providing high quality care to improve health and lives and which seeks to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice, and while maintaining the values of simplicity, integrity and care for those in need.

The Trust strategy is built upon three priorities:

Delivering great care that is high quality and improves lives

Providing a rewarding and supportive place to work

Using resources to deliver effective and sustainable services

As a medical workforce, we provide outstanding secondary care mental health services that allow our service users to feel that they are safe and receiving the latest, high quality, evidence-based care, delivered by motivated, engaged and compassionate staff, who feel supported and enabled to grow in the workplace and the systems we provide. Further information can be found here

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Date posted

07 July 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year Per Annum

Contract

Locum

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

173-29525-MED

Job locations

Red Kite View

Leeds

LS12 3QE

Job description

Job responsibilities

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of consultant contract
On-site parking
Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
Wide-range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

As well as financial support for relocation (up to £8,000*), we want to understand what flexibility means to you, do you want to work condensed hours? Do you have caring responsibilities? Is there a certain day which you cannot work for personal reasons? Then talk to us.

*subject to conditions.

What you will get:

Supportive and friendly colleagues
Personalised coaching and mentoring
Weekly academic teaching
Access to NHS leadership and development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
Annual medical leadership development day
Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

Career and pastoral support from consultant colleagues

Job description

Job responsibilities

We offer a wide range of benefits to help support a healthy work-life balance and support your overall health and wellbeing including:

Excellent relocation package(if applicable)
Annual leave entitlement as per the terms and conditions of consultant contract
On-site parking
Cycle to work & car leasing schemes
Wide-range of Health & Wellbeing benefits

This is a 10 PA post plus a 1% category B availability for out of hours on-call duties.

*subject to conditions.

What you will get:

Supportive and friendly colleagues
Personalised coaching and mentoring
Weekly academic teaching
Access to NHS leadership and development opportunities, including opportunity to become an appraiser and educational / training development opportunities
Annual medical leadership development day
Generous study leave allowance (averaging 10 days per year and up to 30 days leave over 3 years with a budget of £1000 per annum)

Career and pastoral support from consultant colleagues

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBChB or equivalent medical qualification.
Fully registered with GMC and Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
Approved Doctor under s12
Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician status OR able to and committed to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Knowledge

Essential

Excellent knowledge within specialty

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

MBChB or equivalent medical qualification.
Fully registered with GMC and Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months.
Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrist's Guidelines)
Approved Doctor under s12
Approved Clinician/Responsible Clinician status OR able to and committed to achieve with 3 months of appointment

Knowledge

Essential

Excellent knowledge within specialty

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Red Kite View

Leeds

LS12 3QE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Red Kite View

Leeds

LS12 3QE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)