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Consultant Psychiatrist - Putney & Roehampton CMHT

Job details
Posting date: 17 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £93,666 - £126,281 per annum plus London Zone Allowance
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 17 May 2024
Location: London, SW15 5PN
Company: South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6238821/294-MEDI-0351-ABM-B

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Summary

A Vacancy at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.


We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Putney and Roehampton (P&R) CMHT based at Queen Mary's Hospital, London SW15. The role is being offered as 10PAs on a substantive basis, plus an optional extra 1PA for a renewable 2 year fixed term period (worth an extra £18-25k over two years) to develop and deliver additional expertise and special interests in line with our community services or Trust needs.

The P&R CMHT provides care for working age adults who live in the Wandsworth and experience severe or enduring mental illness. The CMHT is one of four within the borough, with care provided according to GP/PCN alignment. The post sits within a well-established MDT including a Senior Clinical Fellow/specialty doctor as well as this post. It works closely with a separate Consultant-led Assessment team and interfaces with a consultant-led Home Treatment Team and in-patient wards. There are also specialist teams for Early Intervention in Psychosis, and Personality Disorder.

Our Trust services are transforming and integrating as part of the country wide community mental health NHS transformation programme. In Wandsworth the Trust is also involved in the Ethnicity and Mental Health Improvement Project (EMHIP).

Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available*terms and conditions apply*

The post-holder will work alongside a full-time specialty doctor and will be clinically responsible for providing high quality clinical leadership and psychiatric care to patients under the care of the team, lead on the training of core and higher psychiatry trainees in the team, and contribute to the teaching of St George’s University of London Medical Students. The postholder will work closely with a Team manager, an advanced clinical practitioner and a dedicated Clinical Service Manager for the Borough. Supervisory support is available from the Associate Clinical Director for Wandsworth as needed.

If you are a dynamic and established consultant psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding S12 approval under the Mental Health Act or are a high trainee within nine months of being eligible for this grade, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Closing date: 27th May 2024(midnight)

Assessment date: TBC (via MS Teams)

Interview and AAC panel date: 25th June 2024

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our location:

Barnes Hospital, Barnes

Our community hub is centrally located near shops, restaurants and stations at Barnes Bridge, Mortlake and Barnes stations with trains to Richmond, Kingston or Clapham Junction. From January 2023 work on a new hospital building will begin, creating a mixed-use development on site. Services are currently temporarily relocated until mid to late 2024 at Livingston House Teddington. This latter site is near Teddington local shops and station, with connections to Clapham Junction and Waterloo via either Kingston or Richmond.
• Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
• Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with the Consultant Psychiatrists and other teams (around referral and liaison) and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their borough or service line.
• Delivery of the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Teams
• Attending weekly clinical team meetings and performing medical duties that are decisions of that meeting
• Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
• Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
• Compiling a patient’s history from a number of sources, and preparing case summaries and discharge summaries
• Compile reports for MHRT and attend on behalf of RC when this deemed appropriate (CTO patients).
• To take part in the discharge planning, CPAs and advising primary care colleagues.
• Liaising with other clinical teams within and outside the trust
• Liaising with general practitioners and medical specialists with regards the physical health of the patients
• Undertake urgent psychiatric assessments when necessary.
• Domiciliary visits as required.
• Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plan


This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024

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