Specialty Doctor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Austen House in Southampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED WED 11 JUN 2025 Jump to job information section

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the post of Specialty Doctor in low secure adolescent in patient psychiatry at Austen House, an adolescent unit which will host a PICU and an LSU . This is a fixed term post for 12 months. After this the post will be reviewed and there is the opportunity to extend. Training to achieve AC status will be supported.

Clinical care

Specialty Doctors will use their skills and expertise to achieve the best care for service users, with a focus on developing and providing supervision and oversight of the team and the assessment and management of complexity and severity. This includes:

*Ensuring evidence-based practice and service user-centred recovery principles to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate all interventions provided by the ward team to promote recovery and independence.

About us

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.