Job overview

North London NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Trent ward, which is an 18-bed mixed acute psychiatric ward for service users of adult working age in the Dennis Scott Unit at Edgware Community Hospital in Barnet. The ward provides inpatient psychiatric assessments, treatment and care to help reduce risk of harm to self, health and others. The post is available since a previous substantive consultant moved to a different clinical area and has been covered by a locum consultant since then. This post offers 10 Programmed Activities per week – 7.5 PAs for direct clinical care and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity. The post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the performance of the team, further development of the service, and the development of clinical pathways and prioritise. We offer  20K Welcome Hello Addition based on eligibility. 

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary team, working in close collaboration with the ward manager and other senior clinicians in the team. The ward is mixed sex psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years and above. It serves all of North Central London – so whilst patients will be primarily from Barnet, some will be from Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. The ward provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse.

Some patients may have treatment resistant psychosis including severe negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase Farm Hospital

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4.  We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.