Job summary
- Main area
- General Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent: .
- Hours
- Part time - 7 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 294-MEDI-0461-CS
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Springfield University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 per annum pro rata plus London Zone Allowances
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist (Wandsworth)
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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
This is a post within the well-established Perinatal team at South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust. The post holder will be a member of the Trust’s wider Perinatal Mental Health Community Services Team (the Perinatal Team). The Team has been gradually expanding since
2017, as part of the national implementation of the NHS Long-Term Plan. The Trust is part of the newly created South London Perinatal Provider Collaborative, alongside OXLEAS and SLaM.
This is a 7 PA Consultant post providing clinical leadership to the multidisciplinary team responsible for the London Borough of Wandsworth. This responsibility is shared with a second consultant in the
borough ( 8 PAs).
Main duties of the job
The vision for Perinatal Mental Health Community Services in South West London (SWL) is that every woman will understand how to access services to support the psychosocial wellbeing of herself, her infant and her family to prevent and manage mental illness. Every woman will be able
to access specialist perinatal mental health care and treatment at the right time, at the right level and at the right location, and ever clinician will understand how and where to refer women. With two points of access across SWL, provided in partnership by SLaM in Croydon, and SWLStG in
Richmond, Kingston, Sutton, Merton and Wandsworth, a high-quality specialist service will be delivered for women with moderate to severe complexity related to their perinatal care. Early identification and treatment from a specialist perinatal community mental health team will be provided for women resident in the six South West London boroughs during the antenatal period until the postnatal period, expanding to 15 months in January 2024 and gradually building this up to 24
months.
Working for our organisation
South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust was established in 1994, initially providing services in the London Borough’s of Merton and Wandsworth. The Trust now serves a local population of over 1 million people across the Boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth. In general, the population of SW London is more affluent than other sectors of London and many people in the boroughs served by the Trust are highly educated and assertive in demanding the services they want. There are also pockets of deprivation across south west London and service provision is therefore carefully attuned to the requirements of the population as a whole.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder will lead, jointly with the other consultant, on the perinatal care for the residents of Wandsworth borough.
Please refer attached JDPS for detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Medical degree
- Full GMC registration
- MRCPsych or equivalent
- Included on the GMCs Specialist Register or eligible for such inclusion (or a higher psychiatry trainee within six months of completing their CCT).
- Section 12 & Approved Clinician status under the Mental Health Act, or willing to apply for such approval once in post.
Desirable criteria
- CCT in General Adult Psychiatry, or subspecialty CCT in General Adult Psychiatry and significant experience of General Adult psychiatry at a senior level.
- Experience of working in Perinatal psychiatry at Consultant/Higher Specialist trainee for at least a year
- Other higher degrees or further training relevant to the post.
Critical Expertise in Specialty
Essential criteria
- Completed minimum of three years full time training in approved higher psychiatric training scheme.
- Engage in continuing professional development and join a Peer Group to gain approval for CPD done.
Ability to enhance specialty of mental health care provided Management/Audit
Essential criteria
- Commitment to developing practice through clinical audit, quality improvement, and working with colleagues in the liaison psychiatry team, the acute trust, and managers.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service planning
- Management or leadership experience or training
Research and Publications
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of publications or research experience
Teaching
Essential criteria
- Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level
Personal Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide clinical leadership. - Willingness to supervise junior medical staff and staff from other disciplines. - Willingness to work flexibly in an integrated team providing services to working age and older adults. - Willingness to take on fair share of Trust-wide duties where necessary. 14 - Commitment to personal and service development. Personal Circumstances - Able to participate in Consultants’ on-call rota
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
- Medical Staffing
- Job title
- Medical Staffing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Closing Date: 16/11/2025
Assessment Date: TBC
Interview date: TBC
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