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Consultant Psychiatrist - Putney & Roehampton

Job details
Posting date: 30 July 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £99,532 - £131,964 Per Anuum, Pro rata plus London zone allowance pro rata
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 01 September 2024
Location: Roehampton, SW155PN
Company: South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6523668/294-MEDI-0384-CS

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) IRH based at Queen Marys Hospital, London SW15. The role is being offered part time (6PAs) on a substantive basis.

The P&R IRH provides care for working age adults who live in the Wandsworth and experience severe or enduring mental illness. The IRH 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 full time consultant 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.



Closing date: 1st September 2024 (midnight)

Assessment date: 16th September 2024 via MS Teams

Interview date (via MS Teams): 17th September 2024 via MS Teams

Job Ref: 294-MEDI-0384-CS



The post-holder will work alongside a full-time consultant 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.

Should you be interested in an informal conversation about the role or a site visit, please contact Dr Victoria Hill, Clinical Director for Community Services;Victoria.hill@swlstg.nhs.uk

About us:

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

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’.

This is a great time to join us. 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 are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

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.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey



Job description:

· 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 plans


This advert closes on Sunday 1 Sep 2024