Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- 13 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 334-SOU-7481857-JA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Marina house
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666- £126,281 per annum
- Closing
- 17/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Locum Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist (Rehabilitation)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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
This post is for a fixed-term, full-time Consultant Psychiatrist to provide medical leadership to a community rehabilitation team.
This is a 10PA Consultant Psychiatrist post at the Southwark Community Rehabilitation Team branch 2. This is one of 3 teams that comprise the overall Southwark Assertive Outreach and Rehabilitation Team (AORT).
The rehabilitation team serves non-forensic Southwark mental health patients in supported placements and residential care. It offers specialist care for people with severe mental illness, many of whom have co-morbid conditions (substance misuse, personality disorder), with significant impairment of functioning, treatment resistance and complex needs in multiple domains requiring a high level of support; who may be difficult to engage and/or have gone through multiple episodes of inpatient treatment or protracted admissions, and who may pose risks to self and others. The service has a clear focus on recovery and maximising independence, and promoting successful step down to less supported care.
Main duties of the job
Clinical duties of post holder
The main duties of the post holder are to provide psychiatry consultant leadership and clinical input.
They are described further and fully in the Job Description
Working for our organisation
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC). KHP is responsible for seeing 2 million patients each year, has 25,000employees and 19,500 students, and a £2 billion annual turnover. It brings together the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. See www.kingshealthpartners.org
The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatientbased services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skillsand interests that provides many opportunities for new consultants to thrive and develop. It provides mental health services to the people of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon, as well as substance misuse services for people in Lambeth, Bexley, Greenwich and Wandsworth, and specialist CAMHS services for Kent. We also provide tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and have a number of partnerships with clinical services and educational programme inEurope, the Middle East and China,
The Trust's core value states that 'everything we do is to improve the experience of people using our services and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all'.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties:
• To provide enthusiastic, and flexible, joint clinical leadership and consultant input into the team
• To take Consultant and where necessary RC responsibility for patients in a range of supported settings in the community
• To provide RC responsibility and Section 12 cover to the patients under your care where detention under the Mental Health Act is required, either for admission under an inpatient service (when RMO responsibility will be transferred) or Section 37/41 of the MHA and for Section 17A, Community Treatment Orders
• To work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti-discriminatory practice
• To liaise with external placement providers on the care of patients in the borough
• To liaise with Consultant Psychiatrists working in the community and inpatient units concerning transfer of patients.
• Liaison with General Practitioners concerning physical health, CPA and discharges
• To provide active leadership in planning accommodation moves
• To offer expert risk assessment and management skills in complex care of people with severe mental illness
• To ensure excellence in the delivery of evidence-based treatments
• To act as a source of support, advice and information to current or prospective patients and their carers, referrers, team members and other professionals
• In conjunction with the Team Leader, will help to represent the unit at CAG and care pathway meetings and other internal and external meetings where needed.
• To provide reciprocal Approved Clinician cover including under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff in Southwark during working hours
• To keep up-to-date with all developments in research and treatment around community/rehab care pathways and community mental health care
• To develop strong working relationships with outside stakeholders, notably GPs, local authority social services, housing providers and local voluntary organisations.
• To undertake responsibilities as an approved clinician under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as needed
• To work flexibly with other teams within SLaM and other mental trusts, and with the voluntary sector, to ensure good coordination of care
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Experience in other relevant specialties such as forensic psychiatry, liaison psychiatry, home treatment or addictions
ELIGIBILITY
Essential criteria
- Fully registered with the GMC with a licence to practise at the time of appointment
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry OR within six months
- Approved clinician status and under S12 OR able to achieve within three months of appointment
CLINICAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge
- Good oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty
- Significant experience in risk assessment and management including positive risk taking
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- Experience of work in different cultural contexts and evidence of sensitivity to issues of equity and diversity
TEACHING, ACADEMIC AND LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Significant teaching experience, at undergraduate and postgraduate level
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership, working collaboratively and effectively with others in a multidisciplinary team and the wider trust and community
- Leadership and management experience.
- Participated in continuous professional development
- Participated in research or service evaluation
- Able to use and appraise clinical evidence.
- Has actively participated in clinical audit and quality improvement programmes
Desirable criteria
- Formal training or qualifications in supervision
- Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- Experienced in clinical research and / or service evaluation.
- Evidence of achievement in education, research, audit and service improvement: awards, prizes, presentations and publications.
- Has led quality improvement projects leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients
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 Daniel Meek
- Job title
- Associate Medical Director - Southwark
- Email address
- [email protected]
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