Consultant in Psychiatry of Intellectual Disabilities
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Mai 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 09 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Beckenham, BR3 3BX |
| Cwmni: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7108257/334-CRY-7108257-JA |
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A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Pending College Approval
We are seeking to appoint a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist within the Croydon Mental Health Learning Disabilities Team for 6 PAs per week. The is a new post; created to meet local service needs. This is one of two consultant posts in the team.
Croydon MHLD is a specialist community mental health team for adults with a confirmed diagnosis of learning disability. It has a total caseload ranging between 115 and 125 patients. The service delivers patient contact in multiple modalities, including outpatient clinics, remote virtual consultations as well as community and home visits. The team has strong links with local children and adult mental health services as well as Croydon University Hospital.
The primary duties of this 8 PA consultant psychiatrist post is to provide clinical care for the patient on the caseload as the Responsible Clinician. The post holder will conduct outpatient clinics and home visits, attend CPA reviews, and carry out liaison work with GPs, multi-disciplinary colleagues from the Croydon Community Learning Disability Team and other mental health services. The post holder will provide clinical cross cover for the other Trust MHLD consultants and vice versa. The post holder will be employed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers Mental Health in Learning Disabilities (MHLD) services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon. These underwent revision and modernisation to ensure a flexible local service response and to make best use of expertise across boroughs. The Trust’s MHLD services are linked with the Estia Centre, which is a training, learning and development hub for staff as well as a resource for adults with learning disabilities and additional mental health needs.
Our MHLD and wider neurodevelopmental services, were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.
To provide expert assessment of mental health in people with learning disabilities.
2) To provide patients, referrers and carers with diagnostic and management advice;
3) To promote and develop best practice in the management of adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems, locally, regionally and nationally;
4) To make contemporaneous clinical notes on the electronic patient record system employed by the Trust and adhere to Trust/service requirements for electronic record keeping, including prompt verbal and written clinical and medico-legal communications;
5) To lead the MDT in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment options, including liaison with the patient, carers and the wider multi-disciplinary team;
6) To appropriately escalate patients ‘at risk’ to the Dynamic Support Register, which is led by the local Integrated Care Board.
7) To facilitate admission and discharge pathways of patients with learning disabilities who require mental health admission, either into adult mental health wards or into specialist inpatient services, working with the MDT, patients, carers, referrers and commissioners to ensure effective processes and good communication;
8) To act as a resource within the service and directorate, offering advice and support to colleagues to ensure safe and evidence-based practice
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025
Pending College Approval
We are seeking to appoint a substantive Consultant Psychiatrist within the Croydon Mental Health Learning Disabilities Team for 6 PAs per week. The is a new post; created to meet local service needs. This is one of two consultant posts in the team.
Croydon MHLD is a specialist community mental health team for adults with a confirmed diagnosis of learning disability. It has a total caseload ranging between 115 and 125 patients. The service delivers patient contact in multiple modalities, including outpatient clinics, remote virtual consultations as well as community and home visits. The team has strong links with local children and adult mental health services as well as Croydon University Hospital.
The primary duties of this 8 PA consultant psychiatrist post is to provide clinical care for the patient on the caseload as the Responsible Clinician. The post holder will conduct outpatient clinics and home visits, attend CPA reviews, and carry out liaison work with GPs, multi-disciplinary colleagues from the Croydon Community Learning Disability Team and other mental health services. The post holder will provide clinical cross cover for the other Trust MHLD consultants and vice versa. The post holder will be employed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
The Trust delivers Mental Health in Learning Disabilities (MHLD) services across the boroughs of Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Croydon. These underwent revision and modernisation to ensure a flexible local service response and to make best use of expertise across boroughs. The Trust’s MHLD services are linked with the Estia Centre, which is a training, learning and development hub for staff as well as a resource for adults with learning disabilities and additional mental health needs.
Our MHLD and wider neurodevelopmental services, were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.
To provide expert assessment of mental health in people with learning disabilities.
2) To provide patients, referrers and carers with diagnostic and management advice;
3) To promote and develop best practice in the management of adults with learning disabilities and mental health problems, locally, regionally and nationally;
4) To make contemporaneous clinical notes on the electronic patient record system employed by the Trust and adhere to Trust/service requirements for electronic record keeping, including prompt verbal and written clinical and medico-legal communications;
5) To lead the MDT in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment options, including liaison with the patient, carers and the wider multi-disciplinary team;
6) To appropriately escalate patients ‘at risk’ to the Dynamic Support Register, which is led by the local Integrated Care Board.
7) To facilitate admission and discharge pathways of patients with learning disabilities who require mental health admission, either into adult mental health wards or into specialist inpatient services, working with the MDT, patients, carers, referrers and commissioners to ensure effective processes and good communication;
8) To act as a resource within the service and directorate, offering advice and support to colleagues to ensure safe and evidence-based practice
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Jun 2025