Vacancy: Director of Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK

University of Nottingham - School of Medicine - Institute of Mental Health

Location: Nottingham Salary: Not specified Hours: Full Time Contract: Permanent Placed on: 21st July 2014 Closes: 9th September 2014

School of Medicine - Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

See here for details online.

This is an opportunity for an inspirational leader to direct and develop the internationally-renowned Institute of Mental Health (IMH) in Nottingham.

The IMH is a pioneering collaboration bringing together academic excellence and high quality service provision in an established and proven partnership between the University of Nottingham (UoN) and the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (NHT).

The Institute is the UK’s prime location for inter-disciplinary research in the mental health field, and encompasses a wide range of disciplines including psychiatry, psychology, sociology, business, law, nursing, economics and statistics. It is particularly strong in translational neuroimaging, personality disorder, ADHD, systematic reviewing, implementation and organisation/service innovation. It incorporates a number of research related units and networks, such as hubs of both the Mental Health Research Network and the Primary Care Research Network, CLAHRC (Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care), the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group and a growing portfolio of international projects in Europe and China.

As Director, you will be expected to provide innovative leadership to the Institute, in particular in driving its research agenda in the UK and internationally. You will be expected to inspire and influence colleagues, collaborators and funders across the whole research spectrum, including specifically in research of immediate relevance to healthcare and patients. You will be skilled at establishing and maintaining partnerships across disciplines and specialties. You will have a strong personal research programme and you will expect to help lead, facilitate and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching with the University and Trust. You may or may not have a professional qualification in medicine (e.g. psychiatry), psychology or another discipline. If you do, the University-Trust partnership is prepared to be creative in your job-planning if you wish to continue clinical service alongside your leadership, research and teaching roles.

This is a joint appointment between the University of Nottingham and the Nottinghamshire NHS Trust, with the University being the substantive employer. You will be employed at Professorial level within the University. Terms and conditions will be commensurate with experience and international seniority. Relocation assistance will be provided where appropriate.

If the post is filled by a clinician, candidates must be registered with the GMC Specialist Register or eligible for entry within six months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) at time of interview and satisfactory Enhanced disclosure will need to be obtained from the Disclosure and Barring Service before final appointment.

If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, tel: 0115 951 3262.

For further details about the post, and for an informal discussion, please contact:

Dr Gopi Krishnan, Medical Director, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Email:gopi.krishnan@nottshc.nhs.uk. To arrange phone conversations or meetings, please contact Ann Snodin on Email: ann.snodin@nottshc.nhs.uk or Tel: +44 (0) 115 95555370.

Professor John Atherton, Dean of the School of Medicine, The University of Nottingham,

Email: john.atherton@nottingham.ac.uk. To arrange phone conversations or meetings please contact Pauline Stapleton on Email: pauline.Stapleton@nottingham.ac.uk or Tel: +44 (0) 115 8231034.

Please note that applications sent directly to these Email addresses will not be accepted.

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