Job Title: Consultant Psychiatrist
Employer: South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Job Type: Full-time
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 113,565 to 150,569 £ / Year
UK Visa Sponsorship: Available
Contract: Permanent.
Salary: £113,565–£150,569 per annum, inclusive of inner London weighting.
Working hours: Full-time, 10 programmed activities (sessions) per week.
Specialty: Liaison Psychiatry, with a focus on older adults and acute hospital mental health services.
Work base: Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston, London.
Join an established liaison psychiatry service providing mental health assessments and treatment for patients in a general hospital.
Work within a multidisciplinary team serving both working-age adults and older people.
Provide clinical leadership to support safe, effective and timely psychiatric care.
Responsibilities
- Provide medical leadership to the Kingston Hospital Liaison Psychiatry Team.
- Assess, diagnose and manage patients presenting with mental health difficulties in the acute hospital.
- Take a clinical lead in the care of patients aged over 65 while supporting the wider adult service when required.
- Provide Mental Health Act Section 12 medical cover for relevant acute hospital presentations.
- Work collaboratively with the team manager and other clinicians to maintain safe, effective services.
- Support psychiatric assessments in the Emergency Department (ED) and Acute Assessment Unit (AAU).
- Participate in clinical governance, audits and quality-improvement activities.
- Identify and resolve operational problems and elevate concerns appropriately.
- Contribute to teaching medical students, junior doctors and nurses.
- Work with general hospital clinicians and community services to coordinate patient care.
- Help ensure that the service meets the Trust's key performance indicators and clinical standards.
- Participate in service development and adapt clinical practice to changing patient needs.
Requirements
- Primary medical degree.
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC).
- Inclusion on the GMC Specialist Register, or eligibility for inclusion within three months of completing a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).
- Mental Health Act Section 12(2) approval.
- Completion of at least three years of full-time training in an approved higher psychiatric training programme.
- Detailed knowledge of treatment approaches for severe mental illness, including psychopharmacological interventions.
- Experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry.
- Commitment to continuing professional development and participation in an approved peer-review group.
- Understanding of clinical audit, quality improvement and clinical governance.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with hospital clinicians, managers, community agencies and liaison psychiatry colleagues.
- Strong clinical decision-making, communication and organisational skills.
Desirable qualifications and experience:
- MRCPsych or equivalent qualification.
- Specialist registration or CCT in General Adult Psychiatry.
- Qualification in talking therapies, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) or Mentalisation-Based Therapy (MBT).
- Experience in service planning, management and development.
- Research experience, relevant higher degrees or peer-reviewed publications.
- Experience working with third-sector organisations and community partners.
Benefits
- Competitive consultant-level salary, including inner London weighting.
- Permanent employment with an established NHS mental health trust.
- Opportunities for career development and continuing professional education.
- Flexible working arrangements, subject to service requirements.
- Opportunities to develop leadership and service-management skills.
- Experience working within an established 24-hour liaison psychiatry service.
- Opportunities to teach medical students, junior doctors and nursing staff.
- Multidisciplinary collaboration across acute hospital and mental health services.
- An inclusive working environment that promotes equality, diversity and staff wellbeing.
- Reasonable adjustments during recruitment for applicants with disabilities.
- Opportunity to contribute to service transformation and improved mental healthcare delivery.
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