Consultant Psychiatrist, South Somerset CMHT - Yeovil in Yeovil inYeovil PUBLISHED TUE 23 SEP 2025 Jump to job information section

Consultant Psychiatrist, South Somerset CMHT - Yeovil Job details Posting date: 23 September 2025 Salary: £109,725.00 to £145,478.00 per year Additional salary information: £109725.00 - £145478.00 a year Hours: Full time Closing date: December 2025 Location: Yeovil, BA20 2BN Company: NHS Jobs Job type: Permanent Job reference: C9184-25-1542 Apply for this job Summary This post provides senior psychiatric input to the Yeovil West part of the community mental health team, which is aligned to 5 of the 20 GP surgeries in the Yeovil area. The consultants work to a functional model following a community/inpatient split. The GP population catchment area for Yeovil West CMHT is 45,162 which is within Royal College recommendations. We have an established system to support doctors to manage DNAs, support transfer of patients to other sources of support or discharge and maintain caseloads at a manageable size. This enables appropriate oversight of caseload. This creates more flexibility within the working week so that doctors can be more creative in service they offer to organisation and patient group. The CMHT psychiatrists also provide medical input to relevant patients in the small Assertive Outreach Team (AOT). Somerset Assertive Outreach service is being developed and improved and provided with forensic link support and input. The core CMHT works closely with the wider community mental health service. This consists of therapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, mental health nurses, psychiatrists, and several team managers. We work together, especially in complex cases and where there is higher risk, to support patients and colleagues. This working together includes within patient consultation, professionals' meetings, care planning, referrals meetings and multi-disciplinary team meetings. We have a clinical model that helps guide our service. There are several more specialised services within the CMHS following specific models that may require medical input to varying degrees. The Assertive Outreach service offers an intensive service to patients with complex needs and difficulty maintaining engagement with a higher likelihood of co-morbid substance abuse. They have ties with the Dual Diagnosis service and benefit from contact with the forensic link worker. Connect 18 is a small team that works with young people transitioning from CAMHS to adulthood, over an 18-month period, and who have complex emotional or mental health needs. They follow principles of engagement and recovery and use a collaborative, strengths and solution focused, and trauma informed approach. Medical review is occasionally needed. Community services have expanded across the Trust with concomitant expansion in staff as we have built up a new service called Open Mental Health in the last 4 years. This service works closely with primary care, the wider community, and the voluntary sector. This service is made up of psychologists, assistant psychologists, liaison staff, eating disorder leads and support workers. This staff body is closely linked with CMHTs through team meetings and supervision. This affords greater skill mix and appropriate input for patients depending on risk level, diagnoses, and previous mental health treatment. This gives many more options for patients referred or being discharged from mental health services. Linked software and interface meetings ensure all referrals have a considered and appropriate offer with reduced repeated assessments. We can provide a more holistic service with greater satisfaction for staff and patients. The development of the OMH service led to Somerset FT being awarded Mental Health Trust of the Year in 2022. There is a Community Mental health reference guide which brings all relevant aspects of CMHS working priorities and practice together in one document with useful embedded links. Specialist Psychological Interventions - these interventions include CBT, Cognitive Analytic therapy, Family therapy, Art Therapy, Dialectic behavioural therapy, EMDR, county wide CAT group and mentalisation based therapy. Our directorate continues to improve the county-wide service to monitor our patients' physical health and prescribing. There are wellbeing, depot and clozapine clinics that follow a newly created standard operational policy. Yeovil's clinics are based in the south somerset hub and is a well-functioning service which facilitates appropriate physical health monitoring, risk factor modification and is managed by the CMHS team managers, with input from psychiatry. We have established referral and follow-up systems. Other teams operating in the area are the South Somerset Home Treatment Team and the Early Psychosis (STEP) team, with their own dedicated psychiatrist. All the above teams are based at Magnolia House on the Summerland's Hospital site in Yeovil, where the post-holder will also be based. There is no inpatient responsibilities attached to this post and inpatient beds for Yeovil are located on Rowan Ward 1, which is also based on the Summerland's Hospital site. This is an 18 bedded unit, providing assessment and treatment primarily for adults of working age. All section 12 approved staff can contribute to the management of the Place of safety based on Rowan ward through contribution to section 136 assessments. There is remuneration for MHAA work.