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Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist
The closing date is 09 June 2026
The Low Intensity Team will be a single team working across the borough providing care for service users who were open to CMHTs are stable in mental state and no longer require a multi-disciplinary approach, whose medication cannot be prescribed by a GP, have been admission free for a minimum of 9 months and have secure accommodation.
Main duties of the job
Clinical duties of post holder
The post provides consultant medical leadership and support to LIT. The post holder would provide senior medical input into the Neighbourhood CMHTs. This is to enable continuity of care across the neighbourhood with a focus on good working relationships with GPs.
About us
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 ground breaking 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 outpatient based services. The Trust has a broad range of staff in all disciplines with the widest range of skills and 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 in Europe, 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'.
Job responsibilities
Within LIT the role of the consultant is to provide medical reviews and provide clinical leadership to care coordinators for service-users with complex needs, patient centred care planning with regular care planning meetings, MDT discussions around complex needs, medical and psychosocial interventions. You would provide supervision to the multidisciplinary team as a whole and liaison with primary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
* 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
* Included on the GMC Specialist Register or within 6 months of eligibility
* Approved Clinician status AND Approved under S12 of the UK Mental Health Act (1983), or able to achieve these within 3 months of appointment
* 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
* In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
* Membership or fellowship of Royal College of Psychiatrists
Experience and clinical skills
* Excellent working knowledge and experience of the application of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act (I)
* Appreciation and understanding of equitable care and a commitment to developing culturally sensitive practices
* Understanding of social factors relevant to psychiatry
* Experience of service development and introducing new services in mental health
* Wide range of specialist and sub-specialist experience relevant to post within NHS or comparable service
Personal Skills
* Ability to work in multidisciplinary team and provide leadership for the team
* Self-motivating
* Confidence in therapeutic risk taking
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal
* Willingness to innovate and problem-solve service issues
Organisational and management skills
* Ability to manage complex workloads and support others to do that
* Commitment to working with service users on service development
* Commitment to Clinical Governance
* Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership & collaborative working to deliver improvement
* Formal leadership and management training
* Experience of team /service leadership
Research and Audit
* Participation in Medical Audit and Quality Improvement initiatives
* Commitment to research informed care and service development
* Publications in peer-reviewed journals in relevant academic fields
Teaching and supervision
* Experience of teaching at either undergraduate or postgraduate level.
* Approval to supervise psychiatric trainees
Other qualities
* Commitment to developing user-focused services
* Ability to get on with colleagues across disciplines and specialties
* Ability to appraise own performance
* Experience of active involvement in service user initiatives
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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