Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist

This role as a Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist at Aberbeeg Hospital offers the opportunity to lead forensic mental health services, providing strategic leadership, expert clinical oversight, and recovery-focused care for people within the criminal justice system. You will act as the Responsible Clinician under the Mental Health Act, ensuring the highest standards of psychiatric care across medium and low secure services.

As a Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist, you will be responsible for the clinical management of a defined caseload, overseeing psychiatric assessments, formulations, and treatment planning. You will provide specialist advice to courts, probation, prison services and MAPPA, and prepare reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals, hospital managers' hearings, and the Ministry of Justice. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you will ensure coordinated care and effective implementation of the Care Programme Approach.

Beyond clinical leadership, you will play a key role in service development, shaping strategy, and contributing to pathway reconfiguration to meet evolving needs.

Elysium Healthcare is a leading provider of mental health, neurological, learning disability, and autism services in England and Wales. With over 8,000 employees and a network of over 90 services, Elysium Healthcare offers opportunities for growth and development within a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Are you an experienced psychiatrist ready to lead forensic mental health services? If so join Aberbeeg Hospital as a Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist to provide strategic leadership, expert clinical oversight and recovery-focused care for people within the criminal justice system. Acting as Responsible Clinician under the Mental Health Act, you will ensure the highest standards of psychiatric care across medium and low secure services.

In this role, you will lead the clinical management of a defined caseload, overseeing psychiatric assessments, formulations, and treatment planning. You will provide specialist advice to courts, probation, prison services and MAPPA, and prepare reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals, hospital managers’ hearings, and the Ministry of Justice. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams—including forensic social workers, psychologists, and occupational therapists—you will ensure coordinated care and effective implementation of the Care Programme Approach.

Beyond clinical leadership, you will play a key role in service development, shaping strategy, and contributing to pathway reconfiguration to meet evolving needs. You will actively participate in clinical governance, audits, and risk management processes, supporting quality improvement and compliance with CQC/HIW standards. Your responsibilities will also include teaching and supervision of trainee psychiatrists and junior medical staff, as well as leading research and quality‑improvement projects to inform best practice.

As a Forensic Consultant Psychiatrist, you will:

• Have a role within senior management within the respective hospital of clinical work.
• Manage and performance manage doctors as necessary.
• Have responsibility for safe and adequate medical cover.
• Facilitate and support the Clinical Quality Assurance programme, ensuring consistency within the units.
• Take a lead role in developing Clinical Governance in conjunction with the Clinical Governance team.
• Ensure high quality, appropriate information and paperwork is received by stakeholders.
• Ensure professional policy and practice and their application is of a good standard across the service.
• Ensure professional compliance with the relevant professional bodies.
• Participate in channels of communication throughout the hospital through which clinicians contribute information.
• Participate in continued professional development as laid out by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
• Provide clinical assistance and support where required to the development of strategies for clinical audit or Quality Improvement and medical education within the hospitals/ region.
• Promoting awareness and understanding of quality improvement…