Trust Grade Doctor in General Adult Psychiatry – Sussex Ward | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	24 April 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£36,616 - £70,425 per annum plus London Weighting of £2,162 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	24 May 2025
Location:	Enfield, EN2 8JL
Company:	Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7168569/

Summary

These 2 posts (one of Suffolk ward and one on Sussex ward) have previously been filled by CT1-3 trainees on rotation.
We have not been able to have trainees allocated to these posts for the last 1-2 years as there isn’t a substantive consultant in post on either of the wards. The posts have thus been filled by locum agency doctors and more recently doctors employed on a fixed term contract (Dr Adaobi Unakalamba on Sussex ward and Dr Amira Baliram on Suffolk ward).
We now wish to employ doctors on a permanent/substantive basis on both wards – 2x WTE posts.

The posts have become available as the two wards are no longer hosting Core Psychiatry Trainees due to relocation of training posts. The posts have been filled over the past year by doctors employed on a fixed term contract. These posts are available as full-time post and will involve working on either of the 2 wards (either Suffolk or Sussex ward). Each of the two posts would offer 10 Programmed Activities per week – 8 PAs for direct clinical care (DCC) and up to 2 PAs for supporting professional activity (SPA).

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:


1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:
• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

The post holders will be required to provide clinical and professional input to their team and to take part in related service development activities alongside the consultants and managers in each team. The posts will offer the opportunity to perform clinical assessments of individuals with mental health problems including mental state examination, history taking, and attendance of meetings with the multidisciplinary team. Additional opportunities with regards to Mental Health Act Assessments, tribunal report writing and attendance as well as leading of MDT meetings/work.

The post holders will gain experience with the full spectrum of psychiatric morbidity. The post holders will work closely with their respective multidisciplinary teams (consultant, other doctors, physician associate, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapist, social workers & graduate mental health workers). The care delivered is recovery-focused, placing emphasis on individuals’ strengths and goals for the future.


This advert closes on Thursday 8 May 2025