Consultant Psychiatrist – General Adult – Contractor

🔥 17 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Consultant

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Psychiatry UK

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🏥 Healthcare

👥 B2C

Healthcare • B2C

Psychiatry UK is the UK’s leading provider of digital psychiatry services, offering online assessment, diagnosis and treatment for a range of mental health conditions. Using secure video links, it connects patients with specialist doctors and provides consultations, assessments and ongoing psychological support with an emphasis on accessibility and convenience. Psychiatry UK operates as a fully remote business, works with many self-employed clinicians, and focuses on pathways including ADHD and ASD while promoting diversity, safety and clinical quality.

📋 Description

• Assess patients referred to the General Adult service across Private, Insurer Pay, RTC and/or NHS contracts • Provide clinical advice, investigations, interventions and routine review appointments • Issue private prescriptions where required, in line with service protocols and regulatory requirements • Complete clinical documentation and administration accurately within agreed timescales, including assessment letters within five calendar days • Maintain accurate, contemporaneous patient records • Respond to patient notes, messages and multidisciplinary team communications by assigned due dates • Work in accordance with Psychiatry UK’s clinical governance framework, policies and procedures • Promptly escalate incidents, safeguarding concerns and patient safety risks • Maintain information security and confidentiality • Work collaboratively with clinical and non-clinical colleagues to support safe and effective patient care • Remain up to date with relevant service, policy and clinical governance communications • Plan and manage workload to meet agreed service requirements • Retain responsibility for professional and clinical decision-making within scope of practice

🎯 Requirements

• GMC registration with a licence to practise • Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register in General Adult Psychiatry • Significant experience working within General Adult Psychiatry • Strong experience assessing, diagnosing and managing a broad range of adult mental health conditions • Experience developing treatment and management plans, including prescribing where clinically indicated • Ability to assess and manage clinical risk, including safeguarding and escalation of concerns • Ability to work autonomously and make safe, evidence-based clinical decisions • Strong written communication and clinical documentation skills • Confident using electronic patient record systems and delivering care within a digital environment • Experience delivering high-quality patient care within a remote service • Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary colleagues • Strong communication, organisation and clinical decision-making skills • Responsiveness, reliability and ability to manage clinical and administrative responsibilities within agreed service timescales • Ability to maintain CPD and annual appraisal requirements • Ability to maintain information security and confidentiality when handling patient information

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible additional capacity work during periods of significant growth and increased patient demand • Remote, home-based working within the UK • Independent contractor flexibility; no expectation of exclusivity, subject to professional, confidentiality and conflict-of-interest requirements • Inclusive and accessible recruitment process • Reasonable adjustments available, including additional time, assistive technology, or alternative formats