Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Specialty Doctor in Craven CMHT
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Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry
We are seeking a keen and enthusiastic full-time Specialty Doctor in Psychiatry to join our Craven Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) based at the Craven Centre, Skipton Hospital.
This 12-month fixed-term post offers an excellent opportunity to work in a welcoming and supportive multidisciplinary team, contributing to the delivery of high-quality mental health care within the community. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with Consultant Psychiatrists and a wide range of professionals, supporting a service that is focused on recovery, collaboration and meeting the diverse needs of our local population.
This full-time post offers excellent support, including admin assistance, IT equipment, and opportunities for professional development. You’ll play a key role in service development, clinical governance, and quality improvement, while enjoying a collaborative and supportive working environment.
If you’re committed to compassionate care, innovation, and teamwork, we’d love to hear from you!
Closing date
Sunday 30th August
Shortlisting
w/c 31st August
Interview
w/c 14th September TBC
The successful candidate will provide assessment, treatment and ongoing care for adults aged 16–65 with complex mental health needs across the Craven locality. Working alongside an experienced Consultant Psychiatrist and a well-established multidisciplinary team, the post holder will deliver high-quality, recovery-focused care, supporting service users to achieve positive outcomes within a community setting.
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The role includes assessing new referrals, undertaking medical reviews, attending daily team huddles, multidisciplinary case review meetings, allocation and leadership meetings, and contributing to the ongoing management of patients within the CMHT caseload. The post holder will undertake home visits where appropriate, provide specialist advice to GPs, liaison services and hospital colleagues, support Mental Health Act related work, and contribute to the management of urgent clinical presentations.
As a senior member of the medical workforce, the successful candidate will contribute to medical leadership across the service, working alongside Consultant Psychiatrists to support service development, clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activities. The role also includes participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, supervision of other healthcare professionals, and involvement in Trust-sponsored research projects where appropriate.
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
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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.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dr Yusuf Rangoonwala
- Job title: Clinical Director
- Email address: Yusuf.Rangoonwala@bdct.nhs.uk
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