Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Greater London, BR3 3BX |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7179473/334-PMOA-7179473-CC |
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Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist - Chelsham House Bethlem Royal Hospital
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated consultant to join Chelsham house team at the Bethlem Royal Hospital for 5 months. This is a well-established substantive consultant post which has been recruited to but successful applicant cannot start till October.
Chelsham House [predominantly for patients with dementia] is an 18 bedded ward located on the beautiful grounds of the Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Greater London, BR3 3BX and the employing Trust is South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM). It provides care and treatment to older adults from any of the four boroughs [Croydon, Lewisham, Lambeth, and Southwark] with dementia who need in-patient assessment and treatment.
The hours of work for the post holder will be Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
There are close working relationships with the other teams within the directorate, including the other two inpatient wards, two home treatment teams, four liaison teams and four community mental health teams.
The post is supported by resident doctors, .
The post holder will work in a well-established multidisciplinary team with resident doctor support, both core and specialty. There is dedicated office space, laptop and screen as well as admin support.
The post holder will provide senior medical leadership to the ward. They will be the Responsible clinician for all patients detained under the mental health act as well as responsible consultant for the rest of the patients who are not detained.
The post-holder will be expected to provide supervision to the other medical members of the team in line with Royal College of Psychiatrists requirements and the Trust's Supervision policy. They will support the ward manager in evaluating the performance of the team and be part of quality improvement work going on in the team.
The post holder will participate in the MHOA consultant on-call rota, providing consultant advice/ support to on-call resident doctors when they see older adult patients. The rota is approximately 1 in 22. The post holder will be expected to be part of reciprocal consultant cover arrangements with the other in-patient consultants.
The post holder within this limited time can to take advantage of opportunities for innovative service development, quality improvement and management/leadership development in the directorate. There are ample opportunities for educational, academic and managerial roles. There are also opportunities for collaborations, as SLaM is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre and the only mental health trust in the UK to have its own biomedical research centre, hosted jointly with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at KCL.
A more detailed job description is attached. There is ample support for appointed consultants by the medical leadership team. As part of this the post holder will have the opportunity of having a more senior consultant as a mentor.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Jun 2025