Trust Doctor in Psychiatry (CT1-3 equivalent) | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,909 per annum, £2162 London allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 July 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE5 8AZ |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7254217/334-SOU-7254217-CC |
Summary
Trust Doctor in Psychiatry (CT1-3 equivalent)
Maudsley Hospital - Fixed term (6 months; recurrent extensions possible)
Applications are invited for a Trust Grade Float Doctor post (CT1 Level) based at the Maudsley Hospital. This is a full-time fixed-term post across a variety of inpatient services at the Maudsley Hospital. This is for 9am-5pm with no on-call responsibilities although you are more than welcome to contribute to the gaps in the resident doctor on-call rota and will be compensated for doing so. This is a well-established role and is becoming available as the hospital has decided to fund a second post performing this role.
Post will be initially for a period of 6 months with possibility of extension.
ThisTrust Doctor post is forAgile Support Psychiatry Doctor (CT1-3 equivalent) - Maudsley Hospital provides psychiatric medical input to inpatient psychiatric wards, with the purpose of providing cover for psychiatric residents associated with the teams. The post is designed to cover for short planned leave and on-call commitments (9am-5pm) of the ward resident doctors. The post-holder would have a host ward and rotate to cover short-term vacancies on the Maudsley inpatient wards, and the female psychiatric intensive care unit based in the Maudsley Hospital. Each ward has a full time dedicated inpatient consultant psychiatrist, middle-grade doctor (ST4-6 or specialty doctor) and two SHO-level doctors (CT1-3, GP training residents, F2s). This is the second post of this kind in the hospital, so the successful applicant will be working with another doctor performing the same duties.
The post holder will be involved in the assessment & management of adults who are of a clinical and risk profile requiring inpatient psychiatric admission. Patients typically present with an acute mental disorder, and associated vulnerabilities with risk to themselves or others. The inpatient psychiatric services interface with home treatment teams, community-based services and general medical services in the primary and secondary care.
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is one of 3 Foundation Trusts within Kings Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre and is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service-user outcomes. As well as providing excellent mental health services for the local community, the Trust is committed to maintaining its national status as a provider of specialist mental health services for people living across the UK.
1. To provide medical and psychiatric advice to the inpatient wards under supervision of consultant psychiatrists, including our acute wards, the psychiatric intensive care unit and the rehabilitation and challenging behaviour unit in the Maudsley Hospital.
2. To accept medical responsibility for patients admitted to the inpatient wards under supervision of consultant psychiatrists.
3. To initiate a psychiatric assessment, including mental state examination on first contact with the patient, and to regularly update the mental state examination.
4. To ensure that a physical examination of all patients admitted to the inpatient wards under the care of the psychiatric team has been performed.
5. To maintain adequate written documentation of all medical and psychiatric examination of the patients and to record contacts with relatives and carers and their outcomes. Clear diagnostic and treatment plans should be formulated and recorded, and a comprehensive case workup should be available within 24 hours of admission.
6. To maintain adequate communication of medical activities. This includes completion and communication of electronic discharge notification and present medication details for the General Practitioner before the patient is discharged from the ward. A definitive discharge summary should be completed and sent within one week of discharge. The discharge summary should include presentation and progress during the admission, and statements of commitment to further follow up, monitoring and intervention, particularly if they are to be undertaken from within the community mental health teams. Should the patient be discharged back to the primary care, the significance of this or follow up work should be clearly indicated.
7. To provide cover for short-term planned and unplanned leave and on-call commitments of the ward resident doctors with prior arrangement. There is a duty phone held by the ward resident doctors. This role does not include routinely holding this phone, though may at times hold this where covering is the scheduled ward residents are not able to. This is occasional.
8. To maintain a professional and ethical stance towards the patients, their relatives, other team members and other agencies.
9. To acquire knowledge of and competence in legal framework including the Mental Health Act 1983/2007 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
10. To acquire competence in basic psychotherapeutic techniques and attend supervision sessions.
11. Clinical supervision by the consultant psychiatrist in the host ward will take place on a regular basis, with regular feedback.
This advert closes on Sunday 15 Jun 2025