Job overview

North London Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an 
enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Daisy Ward, which 
is an 18-bed female acute psychiatric ward in the new Blossom Court 
inpatient unit in St Ann’s Hospital in Haringey. 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 priorities.

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 a female only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years 
and above. It serves all of North Central London – so whilst patients 
will be primarily from Haringey, some will be from Barnet and 
Enfield and on occasion from Camden or 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.