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Consultant Psychiatrist General Adult Psychiatry- £20k Recruitment Premium

Job details
Posting date: 03 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £93,666 - £126,281 p.a
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 03 May 2024
Location: Enfield, EN2 8JL
Company: Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6198919/306-BEH-1623-C

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Summary

A Vacancy at Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust.


A generous Recruitment and Retention Premia of £20,000 is applicable to this post (conditions apply). A relocation package of up to £8000 is also available for this post.

There is an exciting opportunity within the North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP) for a General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Enfield Acute Adult Inpatient Services based at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield. The role is based on Suffolk ward in the Chase Building, which cares for adult female patients with regards to assessment and treatment. This is a 17 bedded ward.

Please refer to the updated Job Description for this full time (10PA) post and the Person Specifications within it.



The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership for the MDT on Suffolk ward. The post-holder will be expected:

· To manage 17 adult inpatients (female) with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, many of whom will be detained under a section of the Mental Health Act (MHA).

· To conduct assessments, request investigations and contribute to formulation of acutely unwell psychiatric inpatients.

· To formulate treatment plans and oversee implementation and evaluation of these treatment plans.

· To contribute to management of patient flow with a view to manage bed capacity effectively and avoid or flag up potential delayed transfers of care.

· To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures.

· To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.

Formed in 2001 through the merger of its predecessor organizations, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH-MHT) continues to innovate and develop at a fast pace. We are a large mental health trust in London with an annual budget of £337 million and employing more than 3,300 staff. We serve a population of 1.2 million and operate from over 20 main sites in the community. In 2020-21 the trust cared for more than 126,176 people; approximately 2,800 patients on our wards and over 128,388 service users in the community.

We provide a wide range of local and more specialist mental health services, including helping people with serious mental illness (SMI), personality disorders, drug and alcohol recovery, children’s mental health issues, dementia, eating disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD and suicide prevention. The Trust has an overall Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating as ‘Good’ from 2019 and retained the ‘good’ rating in 2022. It also runs the North London Forensic Service (NLFS), which the CQC has rated as Outstanding.

Our CEO, Jinjer Kandola MBE has been appointed to be joint CEO for both BEH and Camden and Islington Trust, bringing the two organisations ever closer together and they are now working in a partnership across North Central London. This is allowing for the joint expertise, increased innovation and reduction in barriers with joint initiatives.

· To manage 17 adult inpatients (female) with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, many of whom will be detained under a section of the Mental Health Act (MHA).

· To conduct assessments, request investigations and contribute to formulation of acutely unwell psychiatric inpatients.

· To formulate treatment plans and oversee implementation and evaluation of these treatment plans.

· To contribute to management of patient flow with a view to manage bed capacity effectively and avoid or flag up potential delayed transfers of care.

· To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g. Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding procedures.

· To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the electronic record and participating in routine outcome monitoring of clinical work.

· To teach and supervise medical staff and other professionals in all aspects of psychiatric care.

· To participate in the trust-wide day-time consultant psychiatrist second on-call Rota for Health Based Place of Safety situated at Chase Farm Hospital (1:32) and the trust wide on call rota (see section 20, below).

· To participate in the daily MDT Meeting and other regular ward or team meetings including staff supervision. To undertake other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good functioning of the clinical team.

· To take part in weekly Enfield discharge planning meetings and other regular meetings around patient flow involving locality and system colleagues.

· To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post and take part in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service within which it is embedded.

· As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the service.


This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024

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