Overview
Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
The Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) aims to provide a more enhanced service for people diagnosed with serious mental illness and to deliver evidence-based interventions and care whilst increasing service user and carer satisfaction. AOT adopts an assertive and proactive way of working, utilising a whole-team approach to provide continuity of care and encourage creativity in engagement and positive risk taking. The AO multidisciplinary team provides most interventions from within the team and delivers care wherever is required and most appropriate. The postholder will provide clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team and will work with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care is provided that supports the whole healthcare system. The postholder will work with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives.
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 25,000 employees 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 groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare.
The Trust is committed to innovation, effective interventions and improved service user outcomes. It has 230 community, inpatient and outpatient-based services. 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. It also provides tertiary specialist services to people from across the UK and has partnerships with clinical services and educational programmes 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\'.
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This advert closes on Sunday 21 Sep 2025.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership for the multidisciplinary team and work with the team manager to ensure responsive, excellent and safe care that supports the whole healthcare system.
* Collaborate with senior directorate staff to meet Trust objectives.
Details
* Posting date: 22 August 2025
* Salary: Not specified
* Additional salary information: £109,725 - £145,478 per annum
* Hours: Full time
* Closing date: 05 October 2025
* Location: London, SE5 8RZ
* Company: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
* Job type: Contract
* Job reference: 7399557/334-SOU-7399557-JA
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