Consultant Psychiatrist - CMHT Lewisham
Posted 6 days 4 hours ago by NHS
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) are looking for a dynamic, forward thinking, enthusiastic, full time, substantive Consultant Psychiatrists to lead a Community Mental health team in the London Borough of Lewisham.
If you are looking for an exciting frontline role, within an established community mental health team, with opportunities to work closely with Primary care partners and lead on further service development and incorporating quality improvement methodology to evaluate changes, then this is the ideal post for you.
You will be providing input for the Community Mental Health Team in Lewisham's Neighbourhood 2 in the North part of the neighbourhood (N2N).
Main duties of the jobThe main duties of the consultant are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and to act as Approved Clinician to the two Neighbourhood Teams - the Primary Care Mental Health Team and the Community Mental Health Team, and to support the Clinical Service Lead.
Close liaison with primary care will be a key part of the role. You will need to work directly with GPs and other stakeholders. The Lead clinician for community teams, Dr Dominic Cottrell and the AMD for Lewisham, Dr Hugh Williams will support you and the team with regard to stakeholder engagement and addressing any interface issues.
About usWe are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and 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 are highlighted 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.
- To provide enthusiastic and flexible joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team, alongside the Clinical Service Lead.
- To take consultant responsibility for your sector of the Neighbourhood Community Mental Health team, 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 working closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team.
- To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness.
- 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.
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months.
- Approved clinician status and under S12 OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment.
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice.
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification.
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management.
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines). Experience in relevant specialties such as inpatient, old age psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions.
- Excellent knowledge in specialty.
- Excellent clinical skills using a bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty.
- Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA.
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service.
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training.
- Ability to work in and lead a team.
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- Participated in continuous professional development.
- Participated in research or service evaluation.
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes.
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post.
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken.
- Experienced in clinical research and/or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led quality improvement projects leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
AddressN2 Community Mental Health Team- based at 62 Speedwell Street, Deptford, London SE8 4AT
SalaryDepending on experience £105,504 - £139,882 per annum
ContractPermanent
Working patternFull-time
Reference number334-LEW JA
Job locationsN2 Community Mental Health Team- based at 62 Speedwell Street, Deptford, London SE8 4AT