Job summary
- Main area
- acute inpatient ward
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (.)
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 294-MEDI-0437-CS
- Employer
- South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ellis Ward
- Town
- Red Lion Rd;, Tolworth,Surbiton
- Salary
- £59,175 - £95,400 per annum pro rata plus London Zone Allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialty Doctor-Ellis Ward
NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Doctor
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
The Trust is seeking an energetic and motivated specialty doctor, ideally with Section 12 Approval, to work on male only acute inpatient ward to support the consultant psychiatrist in providing high quality clinical care to our patients
Main duties of the job
This post is based at Tolworth Hospital, Red Lion Rd, Tolworth, Surbiton KT6 7QU. Ellis Ward forms part of the inpatient provision of the Trust’s Acute and Urgent Care Service Line, which includes 8 acute adult wards and a PICU, based on 2 sites, Springfield Hospital in Tooting, and Tolworth Hospital in Surbiton.
There are 10 Programmed Activities. These clinical sessions will be on Ellis Ward, within the Inpatient Services of South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (“the Trust”).
The appointed Specialty Doctor will be clinically supervised by the Ellis Ward Consultant Psychiatrist (Dr Jose Felix Mendez Jimenez).
The job plan will be reviewed regularly and may be modified reflecting changing needs within the service.
Ellis ward is a mixed 20 bedded ward. Over the last 12months, on average, there were 12 admissions/transfers in, and 10 discharges/transfers out per month.
Working for our organisation
South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust was formed in 1998. Springfield University Hospital in Tooting is the largest site from which the Trust operates and has provided mental health services since 1841. It provides a range of mental health, learning disability and substance misuse services.
The Trust was originally known as the Pathfinder NHS Trust in 1994 and provided services for Wandsworth and Merton. In subsequent years its strategy was to grow and to become the main statutory provider of mental health services for South West London. The Trust took on Putney and Roehampton services in 1998, Sutton Mental Health Services in 1999, and Kingston and Richmond services in 2001 as the former health authorities were disbanded and primary care trusts were established. The different histories of services in different boroughs are still reflected in service models, cultures and partnership arrangements but a recent move to Service Lines has enabled more homogeneity across the five London Boroughs the Trust now covers.
The Trust now provides mental health services to five London Boroughs: Wandsworth, Merton, Sutton, Kingston and Richmond.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Attending the 9am daily handover meeting and running MDT meetings in the absence of the consultant
Please see attached JDPS for detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Training/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- - Primary Medical degree
- - Full GMC registration.
- - MRCPsych or equivalent.
- - Approval under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act (or to be acquired within 6-12 months of the start date of employment)
Desirable criteria
- - Qualification in a talking therapy such as CBT, DBT or MBT
Experience
Essential criteria
- - Experience of adult acute psychiatric inpatient care.
- - A detailed knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the functions of the Mental Health Review Tribunals and Hospital Managers' Hearings
- - Experience of writing reports of and attending Managers’ Hearings and MHA Tribunals.
Desirable criteria
- - Experience of working with service users with complex needs including challenging or offending behaviours in general adult psychiatry
- - Knowledge and experience of the CPA process, risk assessment and risk management
- - Experience of working with people with alcohol and/or substance misuse.
- - Experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatry
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- - Management of complex mental illness
- - Teamwork
- - Communication
Desirable criteria
- - Up to date knowledge and skills of physical health in general keeping with role as a doctor
- - Ongoing commitment to CPD
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- - Capacity to communicate effectively and sensitively with others. - Capacity to work co-operatively with others and show leadership when appropriate. - Capacity to work effectively in multi-professional and multi-agency teams and to understand own role in team. - Capacity and motivation to treat others with understanding and sensitivity and to see patients as people. - Capacity to see beyond the obvious and to bring a range of approaches to solving problems.
- - Resilience to cope with external pressures and demands.
- - Punctuality. Ability to manage time and to prioritise tasks according to clinical and other needs.
- - Alertness to dangers and emerging situations
- - Professional and personal integrity
- - Good spoken and written English
Other
Desirable criteria
- - Personal experience of mental health problems
- - Evidence of active engagement in audit/ quality improvement
- - Evidence of recent appraisal
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:8th June 2025
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