Specialty Doctor in Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit

Employer Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Oak Ward Town Shenley Salary £61,542 - £99,216 per annum, pro rata (5% HCAS Included) Salary period Yearly Closing 12/03/2026 23:59

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Specialty Doctor to join our dynamic and supportive team on Oak Ward
, a 12‑bedded Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) providing highly specialist, intensive inpatient care for adults experiencing the most acutely disturbed phase of their mental illness.

Oak Ward provides intensive, multidisciplinary care to male adults requiring a high level of support, therapeutic engagement and clinical oversight. Patients are often detained under the Mental Health Act and require a safe, structured and specialist environment to stabilise. Length of stay typically does not exceed 6 weeks, with service users progressing onto acute wards or community care once improved.

Under the supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist, you will:

• Provide high‑quality clinical assessments, reviews, formulation and risk management
• Participate in daily MDT meetings and ward rounds
• Support Mental Health Act processes, capacity assessments and tribunal report writing
• Deliver safe and effective medication management including Clozapine and Lithium protocols
• Maintain clear, timely and comprehensive clinical documentation
• Liaise closely with primary care, crisis teams and acute services
• Contribute to teaching, service development, clinical governance and audits

Our family of over 4,500 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. E verything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Full GMC registration with licence to practise
• Minimum 4 years post‑graduate training, including at least 2 years in psychiatry (or equivalent competencies)
• Strong communication skills and MDT working ability
• Clinical competence in assessment, risk management and care planning
• MRCPsych or equivalent
• Section 12 / AC approval
• Experience across wider psychiatric services
• Experience in research, audit or service evaluation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were “blown away” by our people’s achievements and that everything they saw “sings and hums”.

This year, our staff rated us the 4 th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture.

We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional so that together we provide great care and great outcomes for our service users and carers.

If you would like to join a team to be proud of and…