Job summary
- Main area
- Community Mental Health Services
- Grade
- YC72
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week (40 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 294-MEDI-0348-ABM-B
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666 - £126,281 per annum plus London Zone allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/06/2024
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist – Central Wandsworth & West Battersea CMHT
YC72
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We provide a full range of local mental health services to the Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth London boroughs, as well as specialist forensic mental health services, including specialised services such as national deaf adults and CAMHS inpatients and OCD.
We are committed to providing high quality integrated health and social care for local people with mental health problems in South West London and more specialist mental health services for people throughout the UK. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ however we aim to be ‘outstanding’.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values; being consistent, compassionate, collaborative, respectful and open is at the heart of everything we do. Our mission is "making life better together".
When you join us, you’ll be part of something special – an innovative and rapidly growing organisation that is helping to redefine the Mental Health, education and social care landscape in the UK.
As a Trust, we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated General Adult Consultant Psychiatrist to join the Central Wandsworth & West Battersea CMHT based at Springfield Hospital, London SW17. The role is being offered as 10PAs on a substantive basis, plus an optional extra 1PA for a renewable 2 year fixed term period (worth an extra £18-25k over two years) to develop and deliver additional expertise and special interests in line with our community services or Trust needs.
The CWWB CMHT provides care for working age adults who live in the Wandsworth and experience severe or enduring mental illness. The CMHT is one of four within the borough, with care provided according to GP/PCN alignment. The post sits within a well-established MDT including a Specialty/Specialist doctor as well as this post. It works closely with a separate Consultant-led Assessment team and interfaces with a consultant-led Home Treatment Team and in-patient wards. There are also specialist teams for Early Intervention in Psychosis, and Personality Disorder.
We are transforming and integrating as part of the country wide community mental health NHS transformation programme. In Wandsworth the Trust is also involved in the Ethnicity and Mental Health Improvement Project (EMHIP)
Additionally, we offer a number of enhanced benefits, including a relocation package available - Up to £8,000 relocation package available *terms and conditions apply*
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work alongside a full-time specialty doctor and will be clinically responsible for providing high quality clinical leadership and psychiatric care to patients under the care of the team, lead on the training of core and higher psychiatry trainees in the team, and contribute to the teaching of St George’s University of London Medical Students. The postholder will work closely with a Team manager, an advanced clinical practitioner and a dedicated Clinical Service Manager for the Borough. Supervisory support is available from the Associate Clinical Director for Wandsworth as needed.
If you are a dynamic and established consultant psychiatrist fully registered with the GMC as well as holding S12 approval under the Mental Health Act or are a high trainee within nine months of being eligible for this grade, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Closing date: 27th May 2024 (midnight)
Assessment date: TBC (via MS Teams)
Interview and AAC panel date: 25th June 2024
Working for our organisation
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.
About our location:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Ensuring the delivery of effective, efficient and safe, recovery focused mental health care.
- Medical leadership, working in the multi-disciplinary team and working closely with the Consultant Psychiatrists and other teams (around referral and liaison) and occasionally their Associate Clinical Director within their borough or service line.
- Delivery of the day-to-day clinical care, risk assessment, risk management, initiation of medication, and the recovery focused care delivered by the Teams
- Attending weekly clinical team meetings and performing medical duties that are decisions of that meeting
- Availability within normal working hours 5 days a week for urgent review and management including formal Mental Health Act assessments.
- Multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working with social care, statutory and voluntary and third sector partners.
- Compiling a patient’s history from a number of sources, and preparing case summaries and discharge summaries
- Compile reports for MHRT and attend on behalf of RC when this deemed appropriate (CTO patients).
- To take part in the discharge planning, CPAs and advising primary care colleagues.
- Liaising with other clinical teams within and outside the trust
- Liaising with general practitioners and medical specialists with regards the physical health of the patients
- Undertake urgent psychiatric assessments when necessary.
- Domiciliary visits as required.
- Ensure effective and timely documentation and communication of clinical decision making and management plans
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical degree.
- Full GMC registration.
- MRCPsych, or equivalent.
- Included on the GMC Specialist Register for General Adult Psychiatry or eligible for such inclusion on the Specialist Registrar within three months of completing their CCT.
- Section 12 (2) approval of the Mental Health Act
Desirable criteria
- Qualifications in Old Age Psychiatry, or other specialism
- Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DIT or MBT
- Qualifications in change management and service development skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved higher psychiatric training scheme.
- A detailed knowledge of the main treatment approaches for severe mental illness including psychopharmacological interventions
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management
- Experience of teaching medical and non-medical staff, including those who may not have a formal qualification
Ability
Essential criteria
- Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit and/or research Commitment to working with allied agencies including carer’s groups, and local charities.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service planning and development Experience of working with third sector partners
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 Victoria Hill
- Job title
- Clinical Director for Community Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 5132008
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