Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 04 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata plus London Zone Allowances |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7324554/294-MEDI-0443-CS |
Summary
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist 5PAs - St George's
The Trust is seeking a Consultant Psychiatrist forSt George’s Hospital Liaison Psychiatry. This is an established post.The vacancy has arisen as a result of current established consultant reducing his clinical hours to participate in management roles in Medical Education within the trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for an energetic and dynamic consultant psychiatrist to join this effective, friendly and rewarding service.
The Consultant Psychiatrist will work with the other Liaison Consultants, Drs Marcus Hughes, Alex Butt and Stuart Adams, to provide senior cover to the hospital wards and the Accident and Emergency Department, whilst working within and jointly clinically supervising the Liaison Team. During daytime hours, the team sees patients above 18 years in all wards and departments, including the Emergency Department.
The post holder will spend some time providing assessments, reviews and treatment/aftercare recommendations. He/she will also jointly supervise a weekly caseload of an average of 40 – 50 patients seen by other members of the Liaison Psychiatry team.
In this post the Consultant will participate in the work of the liaison psychiatry team in a large, general teaching hospital with almost 1000 beds. He/she will undertake psychiatric assessment and treatment of patients referred by non-psychiatric teams from St George's Hospital. Patients are referred from all wards and clinical areas within the hospital, including new presentations of functional and organic illness, as well as patients with established mental disorders who have been admitted for medical or surgical treatment. The post-holder will manage mental disorders in this setting, including prescribing for patients with altered metabolism, and delivering brief psychological interventions. The post-holder will conduct and supervise psychiatric assessment and management of deliberate self-harm and psychiatric emergencies presenting in the Accident and Emergency department, as well as hospital wards.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
· Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with, and providing cross-cover to other Consultant Psychiatrists and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their service line.
·Overall responsibility for the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Team
· Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
· Providing cross-cover for the Consultant colleagues where necessary.
· Management of complex cases
·Allocation of resources, in collaboration with the team manager, to service users and carers.
·Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
·Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
Please refer attached JDPS for detailed information
This advert closes on Sunday 3 Aug 2025