Job summary
- Main area
- Psychiatry
- Grade
- Consultant Psychiatrist
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 10 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 334-LEW-6426208-JA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ladywell Unit
- Town
- Lewisham
- Salary
- £99,532 - £131,964 per annum
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant Psychiatrist - Liaison Psychiatry
Consultant Psychiatrist
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
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLAM) are looking to recruit a full time, substantive, dynamic and enthusiastic Consultant Psychiatrist to work within the Liaison team in the London Borough of Lewisham. This is an all age service, which is compliant with the Core 24 model for Liaison Psychiatry.
This is a substantive Consultant post and has previously already been approved by the RCPsych but has recently been resubmitted for approval as it has been more than two years since last approved. The vacancy has arisen due to impending move of the current post holder to take on a different clinical role within the directorate
If you are looking for an exciting frontline role, within a well- established team, with opportunities for further service development and incorporating quality improvement methodology to evaluate changes, then this is the ideal post for you.
You will join two other consultants, one of who is an Adult Liaison Psychiatrist (full time, 10 PA) and the other, is an Old Age Liaison Psychiatrist (8 PA). The role would be ideal for a dual trained Liaison consultant (Adult and Old age) but we are also open to receiving applications just from Adult Liaison Consultants. We welcome applications from candidates with general adult training and with dual training.
For further details please refer to attached advertisement and JD.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be employed by the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, but also be expected to hold an honorary clinical contract with Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, and the full-time clinical role will be within the acute trust. These two trusts have good working relations, and a key component of the post will be liaising between them.
The post is based in University Hospital Lewisham (UHL), but the post holder will have an office and second team base at the Ladywell Unit which is also located on the UHL site, and which houses all our acute Psychiatric wards and our PICU in addition to our outpatient clinic and staff offices/work hubs.
The main duties of this 10PA post are to provide liaison psychiatry Consultant leadership to the liaison psychiatry team in Lewisham. This post will strengthen the Urgent and Emergency Care pathway, as well as supporting the expanding liaison psychiatry service across acute hospital wards and outpatient services. The post holder will offer leadership to the liaison team and have a role in supervising the psychiatric input to the ED and wards. The post holder will work in close collaboration with the Clinical Director of the ED, and the Director of Medicine.
For further details, please refer to attached JD.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
- Generous pay, pensions, and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package, which is dependent on the role and length of service.
- Work life balance, flexible working and supporting a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
- Career development, there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through several programs such as leadership, mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership, and other talent programmes
- Car lease, our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars
- Accommodation, eligible staff benefit from keyworker housing which is available on selected sites
- NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands through Health Service Discounts website.
For further details please refer to attached advertisement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
a .To Provide Clinical Leadership and Consultant input into the Lewisham Liaison Psychiatry team
b. To take Consultant responsibility for Liaison Psychiatry Team patients, assessing or supervising assessment of patients and devising or helping to devise appropriate treatment plans and medication regimes and providing prompt medical response for those patients under your direct care and advise and work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team
c. To provide Responsible Clinician responsibilities under the MHA for patients in UHL
d. To undertake responsibilities as a Psychiatrist approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health
Act 1983 as needed in the ED and wards at UHL
e. To provide reciprocal cover under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act for the leave, study leave and sickness of senior medical staff
f. The post holder will carry a mobile smart phone during work hours provided and paid for by the service, and be contactable by members of the team or other colleagues by phone and email
g. To cross cover the other Consultants within Liaison Psychiatry in Lewisham, and another borough
Consultants or liaison Consultants across SLaM as needed during working hours
h. To work flexibly and creatively as part of a multidisciplinary team promoting informed risk taking and anti-discriminatory practice
For further details please refer to attached JD
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MB BS or equivalent medical qualification
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
- Membership or Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists or equivalent qualification (in accordance with Royal College of Psychiatrists guidelines)
- Experience in other relevant specialties such as in patient, 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 3 months of appointment
Desirable criteria
- In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
Clinical Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Excellent knowledge in specialty
- Excellent clinical skills using bio-psycho-social perspective and wide medical knowledge Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
- Able to manage clinical complexity and uncertainty Makes decisions based on evidence and experience including the contribution of others.
- Able to meet duties under MHA and MCA
Desirable criteria
- Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Academic Skills & Lifelong Learning
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training. Ability to work in and lead team
- Ability to work in and lead team
- Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement.
- 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
- Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post. Reflected on purpose of CPD undertaken
- 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. Zain Sadiq
- Job title
- Associated Medical Director - Lewisham Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02032286393
- Additional information
Adult Liaison Consultant Dr David Codling, [email protected]
Liaison Service lead, Janet Spencer, [email protected]
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