Job summary
- Main area
- General adult psychiatry
- Grade
- Float doctor in Lambeth Hospital (CT1 equivalent)
- Contract
- Fixed term: 6 months (6-month extension possible)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 334-LAM-7186183-CC
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lambeth Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £49,909 per annum, £2162 London allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Float doctor in Lambeth Hospital
Float doctor in Lambeth Hospital (CT1 equivalent)
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Trust Grade Float Doctor post (CT1 Level) at Lambeth Hospital - Fixed term (6 months)
Applications are invited for a Trust Grade Float Doctor post (CT1 Level) based at the Lambeth Hospital. This is a full-time fixed-term post across a variety of inpatient services at the Lambeth Hospital. This is for 9am-5pm with no on-call responsibilities although you are more than welcome to contribute to the gaps in the resident doctor on-call rota and will be compensated for doing so. This is a well-established role and is becoming available as the current incumbent is moving on to commence their training post.
All the services in Lambeth Hospital will be relocated to different Trust sites later this year. All the acute wards and PICU will be relocated to a newly built New Douglas Bennett House in the Denmark Hill campus (Maudsley Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ). This post will move along with all the staff working in these services. A full induction programme will be offered.
Post will be initially for a period of 6 months with possibility of extension.
Main duties of the job
The Lambeth Hospital Float Doctor will provide psychiatric medical input to inpatient psychiatric wards, with the purpose of providing cover for psychiatric trainees associated with the teams. The post is designed to cover for planned leave and on-call commitments (9am-5pm) of the ward resident doctors, including holding the duty bleep on Wednesdays (9am-5pm) during the CT academic day. The post-holder would have a host ward and rotate to cover short-term vacancies on the Lambeth inpatient wards, the psychiatric intensive care unit and the rehabilitation and challenging behaviour ward based on the Lambeth Hospital site. Each ward has a dedicated inpatient consultant psychiatrist and a middle-grade (ST4-6).
The Lambeth Hospital Float Doctor will be involved in the assessment and management of adults who are of a clinical and risk profile requiring inpatient psychiatric admission. Patients typically present with an acute mental disorder, and associated vulnerabilities with risk to themselves or others. The inpatient psychiatric services interface with home treatment teams, community-based services and general medical services in the primary and secondary care.
Working for our organisation
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is one of 3 Foundation Trusts within Kings Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre and is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service-user outcomes. As well as providing excellent mental health services for the local community, the Trust is committed to maintaining its national status as a provider of specialist mental health services for people living across the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide medical and psychiatric advice to the inpatient wards under supervision of consultant psychiatrists, including our acute wards, the psychiatric intensive care unit and the rehabilitation and challenging behaviour unit in Lambeth Hospital.
- To accept medical responsibility for patients admitted to the inpatient wards under supervision of consultant psychiatrists.
- To initiate a psychiatric assessment, including mental state examination on first contact with the patient, and to regularly update the mental state examination.
- To ensure that a physical examination of all patients admitted to the inpatient wards under the care of the psychiatric team has been performed.
- To maintain adequate written documentation of all medical and psychiatric examination of the patients and to record contacts with relatives and carers and their outcomes. Clear diagnostic and treatment plans should be formulated and recorded, and a comprehensive case workup should be available within 24 hours of admission.
- To maintain adequate communication of medical activities. This includes completion and communication of electronic discharge notification and present medication details for the General Practitioner before the patient is discharged from the ward. A definitive discharge summary should be completed and sent within one week of discharge. The discharge summary should include presentation and progress during the admission, and statements of commitment to further follow up, monitoring and intervention, particularly if they are to be undertaken from within the community mental health teams. Should the patient be discharged back to the primary care, the significance of this or follow up work should be clearly indicated.
- To provide cover for planned leave and on-call commitments of the ward resident doctors with prior arrangement, including holding the duty bleep on Wednesdays (9am-5pm) during the Core Trainees academic day.
- To maintain a professional and ethical stance towards the patients, their relatives, other team members and other agencies.
- To acquire knowledge of and competence in legal framework including the Mental Health Act 1983/2007 and Mental Capacity Act 2005.
- To acquire competence in basic psychotherapeutic techniques and attend supervision sessions.
- Clinical supervision by the consultant psychiatrist in the host ward will take place on a regular basis, with regular feedback.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Certificate of completion of FY training or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in medical and related spheres
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in post registration house jobs in the UK
- Knowledge of current issues in psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of working in the adult acute psychiatry services
Personal Quality
Essential criteria
- Interest in psychiatry and desire to explore this career option
- Ability to relate with non-medical staff effectively
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with Black and Minority Ethnic populations
- Diversity of interest over non-medical areas
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Nozomi Akanuma
- Job title
- Associate Medical Director for Lambeth
- Email address
- [email protected]
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