Consultant Psychiatrist - Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing | North London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	16 July 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£105,504 - £139,882 Plus £2,162 of London Zone Weighting per year
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	15 August 2025
Location:	London, NW1 0PE
Company:	Camden And Islington NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7354304/455-ME637

Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in taking on a service leadership role working directly with NHS England and shaping the development of an innovative, high quality regional service, while also continuing to provide direct clinical care to patients. This job provides invaluable experience of the NHSE commissioning process as well as clinical experience working with this interesting and complex patient group. The postholder will have the pleasure of working with an incredibly experienced and supportive team.



Please see attached JD / Person Spec for more details on the Consultant Psychiatrist - Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing role at St Pancras Hospital

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:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

• Assistance with diagnosis, medication reviews, management plans, risk assessments, crisis plans and self-help plans for patients with complex mental health problems.
• Work with Veterans service leads to develop a collaborative care model for patients with disorders falling within the remit of the team.
• Provide clinical assessments of patients as necessary.
• Provide follow up as necessary for clients within teams.
• Support MDT in their diagnosis, management and treatment of patients through case discussions, joint consultations supervision and bespoke training.
• Provide Consultant input and clinical leadership to London Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Service
• Provide Consultant input to triage system for referrals into the service
• Maintain effective communication with GPs, patients and their carers.
• To provide clinical input to multi-disciplinary case conferencing around complex patients.
• Provide clinical assessments and supervision to trainees.
• To engage with local service user and carer groups.
• To provide clinical and professional leadership and to participate in management activities and governance processes related to the post or the wider service in which it is embedded.
• To play an integral role in the performance of the team, the further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and priorities of the service line.
• To work within the MDT promoting respect for all professional groups and focusing upon coherent and integrated teamwork.
• Other management/clinical supporting activity (to be negotiated as required by the Trust.)
• The post holder will be Section 12(2) approved and have approved clinician status. They will participate in the Trust-wide Section 12 daytime rota and will act as RC/AC for patients on Community Treatment Order in the service.
• Appropriate flexibility within timetabled working hours is anticipated for urgent clinical matters.
• To carry out Mental Health Act and domiciliary assessments as required.
• To provide second opinions for Consultant colleagues if requested.
• To support Clinical Governance projects, particularly audits projects in service line plan.
• To keep up with administration, including clustering, entering diagnoses and risk assessments on the electronic patient record system.
• To assist with Serious Incident investigations and complaints if requested.
• To keep up to date with mandatory training.


This advert closes on Saturday 16 Aug 2025