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

 Join a WhatsApp channel that posts ONLY UK visa sponsorship jobs: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb6IqsxGJP8LdarxD53S

Description

• Job title: Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist.

• 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 escalate 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.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online for this job

Disclaimer

Author: Simon RobertEasyInfoBlog is a multi-author blog. We have experts and professionals in various fields who share their ideas and expert knowledge to help you with your daily information needs. Thanks for reading!