Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry – Evans Ward
| Posting date: | 21 April 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 May 2026 |
| Location: | London SE13 6LW, SE13 6LW |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7951666/334-LEW-7951666-JA |
Summary
A Vacancy at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Evans ward is a 15-bed inpatient unit, which provides psychiatric care for men, aged 18-65, with acute mental health problems who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.
The ward is based at the Ladywell unit on the University hospital Lewisham site. In addition to this ward, the Ladywell unit has two other general adult male wards (Clare and Powell wards) , two female general adult ward (Wharton and Virginia Woolf wards), one male PICU (Johnson Unit) and various community services including the Lewisham Home Treatment team, enabling very close working between teams. This promotes good levels of peer support from several consultant colleagues on a daily basis as well as facilitating consultant cover and makes it easy for consultants to find nominal cover during periods of leave.
There is a female PICU and other male PICU’s located in other parts of the trust which Lewisham patients can access.
For further details, please refer to attached JD
• To provide enthusiastic, flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the ward manager
• To take consultant responsibility for your ward, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
· To provide consultant input into the ward, using your expertise to provide advice, liaising closely with others and providing assessment of complex presentations and creating appropriate management plans
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness or those admitted in crisis.
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
For further details, please refer to attached JD.
Benefits offered by SLAM:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits packageand understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits arehighlighted here:
· Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
· Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
· Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
· Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
· Accommodation,eligible staff benefit fromkeyworker housing which is available on selected sites
· NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10%from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership, to act as Approved Clinician for the ward’s case load, and to work with the ward manager to deliver high quality care for patients under the care of the unit.
You will participate in the ward’s daily MDT hand over meetings and chair twice weekly ward rounds. You will also be expected to attend the directorate’s bed management meetings and any other forums/meetings aimed at improving length of stay and quality of care within our acute in patient services.
Many of the ward patients would have been detained under the Mental health act and a fundamental part of the role is to ensure that you complete all the statutory paperwork and responsibilities that go hand in hand with being the Responsible clinician.
Close liaison with community teams, Home treatment team, Liaison, GP’s, other secondary care services (example medical teams at UHL), Police, MOJ (for sec 37/41 patients) will be a key part of the role.
For further details please refer to attached JD.
This advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026
Evans ward is a 15-bed inpatient unit, which provides psychiatric care for men, aged 18-65, with acute mental health problems who live in the London Borough of Lewisham.
The ward is based at the Ladywell unit on the University hospital Lewisham site. In addition to this ward, the Ladywell unit has two other general adult male wards (Clare and Powell wards) , two female general adult ward (Wharton and Virginia Woolf wards), one male PICU (Johnson Unit) and various community services including the Lewisham Home Treatment team, enabling very close working between teams. This promotes good levels of peer support from several consultant colleagues on a daily basis as well as facilitating consultant cover and makes it easy for consultants to find nominal cover during periods of leave.
There is a female PICU and other male PICU’s located in other parts of the trust which Lewisham patients can access.
For further details, please refer to attached JD
• To provide enthusiastic, flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the ward manager
• To take consultant responsibility for your ward, acting as Approved Clinician and assessing or supervising assessment and management of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes, providing prompt medical response, and advising and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
· To provide consultant input into the ward, using your expertise to provide advice, liaising closely with others and providing assessment of complex presentations and creating appropriate management plans
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness or those admitted in crisis.
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
For further details, please refer to attached JD.
Benefits offered by SLAM:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits packageand understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits arehighlighted here:
· Generous pay, pensions and leave,we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
· Work life balance,flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
· Career development,There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
· Car lease,our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
· Accommodation,eligible staff benefit fromkeyworker housing which is available on selected sites
· NHS discounts,with discounts up to 10%from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership, to act as Approved Clinician for the ward’s case load, and to work with the ward manager to deliver high quality care for patients under the care of the unit.
You will participate in the ward’s daily MDT hand over meetings and chair twice weekly ward rounds. You will also be expected to attend the directorate’s bed management meetings and any other forums/meetings aimed at improving length of stay and quality of care within our acute in patient services.
Many of the ward patients would have been detained under the Mental health act and a fundamental part of the role is to ensure that you complete all the statutory paperwork and responsibilities that go hand in hand with being the Responsible clinician.
Close liaison with community teams, Home treatment team, Liaison, GP’s, other secondary care services (example medical teams at UHL), Police, MOJ (for sec 37/41 patients) will be a key part of the role.
For further details please refer to attached JD.
This advert closes on Thursday 7 May 2026