Consultant Psychiatrist
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The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) Abuja is hiring a Consultant Psychiatrist on a full-time basis at grade level GL 5A. The role involves delivering specialist psychiatric care across outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and liaison settings, leading multidisciplinary teams, and strengthening mental health pathways, governance, and quality improvement within a 500-bed specialty hospital.
- Full-time Consultant Psychiatrist role at AMCE Abuja
- Grade level GL 5A position
- 500-bed specialty hospital with international clinical partnership
- Covers outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and liaison psychiatry
- Includes clinical leadership, supervision, and service development
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Job Title: Consultant Psychiatrist
Consultant Psychiatrist at African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE)
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Sep 17, 2026, 12:06 PM
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The African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) Abuja is a 500-bed specialty hospital offering world-class comprehensive diagnostics and treatment in oncology, cardiovascular, and haematological care, and general medical and surgical services, along with top notch research and education. The AMCE will provide exceptional care to people on the African continent, regardless of their financial means. Developed by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in clinical partnership with King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust., AMCE Abuja is the first of five centres planned for development in Africa.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Employment Type: Full Time
Level: GL 5A
Job Purpose
The role will deliver safe, compassionate, evidence-based care across outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and liaison settings; lead multidisciplinary clinical decision-making; and strengthen AMCE's mental health pathways, governance, education, and quality improvement programmes.
The Consultant Psychiatrist will provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management for patients presenting with acute and complex mental health conditions at the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE).
Key Accountabilities/
Responsibilities
- Specialist Clinical Practice:
- Prescribe, review, and monitor psychotropic medication in line with evidence-based guidelines, physical-health risks, and potential drug interactions.
- Coordinate psychological, social, occupational, and rehabilitative interventions as part of individualised care plans.
- Manage a broad range of mental health conditions, including mood, anxiety, psychotic, trauma-related, substance-use, neurocognitive, and medically associated disorders.
- Provide consultant-led outpatient, inpatient, emergency, and consultation-liaison psychiatry services.
- Conduct comprehensive psychiatric assessments, including mental state examination, risk assessment, formulation, diagnosis, and treatment planning.
- Assess and manage psychiatric emergencies, including suicide risk, severe behavioural disturbance, delirium, withdrawal states, and acute psychosis.
- Multidisciplinary & Integrated Care:
- Provide specialist advice to AMCE's oncology, cardiovascular, haematology, general medical and surgical, and critical-care teams.
- Engage patients and families in shared decision-making, psychoeducation, and recovery-focused care while maintaining confidentiality and dignity.
- Build effective referral, discharge, relapse-prevention, and follow-up pathways with internal and external care providers.
- Lead multidisciplinary case reviews and work closely with physicians, surgeons, nurses, psychologists, pharmacists, social workers, and other allied health professionals.
- Clinical Leadership & Service Development:
- Promote a culture of compassionate care, professional accountability, safeguarding, and zero tolerance for stigma or discrimination.
- Provide clinical leadership for psychiatry services and supervise junior doctors and other members of the mental health team.
- Support workforce planning, service evaluation, resource utilisation, and the responsible growth of psychiatry services at AMCE.
- Develop and implement clinical pathways, protocols, and escalation arrangements for mental health care across the hospital.
- Quality, Governance & Compliance:
- Maintain accurate, timely, confidential clinical records and monitor agreed quality, safety, and outcome indicators.
- Ensure practice complies with applicable Nigerian legislation, professional standards, AMCE policies, and recognised international guidelines.
- Contribute specialist input to safeguarding, capacity, consent, restraint, and other complex ethical or medico-legal decisions.
- Lead clinical audits, incident reviews, morbidity and mortality discussions, and quality improvement initiatives related to mental health care.
- Teaching, Research & Professional Development:
- Participate in research, service evaluation, scientific presentations, and publication relevant to psychiatry and integrated care.
- Teach, supervise, and mentor residents, medical officers, students, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.
- Maintain continuing professional development and support an evidence-based learning culture across the service.
- Must have skills:
- Demonstrated competence in managing acute, complex, and medically co-morbid mental health conditions across inpatient and outpatient settings
Qualifications
Full registration with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) and a valid practising licence, or eligibility to obtain both before appointment.
Experience
leading multidisciplinary teams and developing clinical pathways or services in a tertiary or specialist healthcare environment.
MBBS or equivalent medical degree from a recognised institution.
Proven contribution to teaching, supervision, clinical governance, audit, quality improvement, or research.
Demonstrated competence in managing acute, complex, and medically co-morbid mental health conditions across inpatient and outpatient settings.
Excellent clinical judgement, communication, leadership, and conflict-management skills.
Additional training or certification in consultation-liaison, addiction, old-age, forensic, or another relevant psychiatric subspecialty is advantageous.
Strong commitment to ethical practice, confidentiality, patient safety, and culturally responsive, person-centred care.
Fellowship in Psychiatry from the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, West African College of Physicians, Royal College of Psychiatrists, or an equivalent recognised specialist qualification.
Minimum of 7 years' post-fellowship
in specialist psychiatric practice.
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