Consultant with Community Mental Health Services

Doctors Direct has a great opportunity for a Consultant with Community Mental Health Services experience, available at sites across South London.

This role allows you to work with a multi-disciplinary team providing holistic evidence-based care and working with people to manage their mental health and risks when at their most distressed. As the Consultant, you have the opportunity to develop those working relationships and provide clinical leadership to enhance the clinical offer within the team and wider unit. The multi-disciplinary team you work with also provides the support to provide this care.

We are seeking those with experience in the assessment and safety management of service users within the community, this includes excellent communication skills with a detailed knowledge of safeguarding procedures. You will also know interventions, including psychological interventions to support our mothers, babies, and families. Our clinical team includes Psychiatry, psychology, advanced nurse practitioners, operational managers, Nursing, occupational therapy, Nursery Nurses and Peer support workers.

Responsibilities will include:

  • To be responsible for medical leadership and the delivery of patient care for those patients under the secondary care with CMHT. This may also include the provision of advice and assessment of patients whose overall responsibility of care remains with the referrer such as GP services.
  • To act as the Community's Responsible Clinician for patients in their care whilst the local Community Consultant is on leave to provide a Responsible Clinician for those patients in the neighboring Community area.
  • To liaise with Care Pathway & community providers including GPs and community colleagues to contribute and develop care pathways and community networks within secondary, primary, and community care.
  • to offer a flexible service, which recognizes the potential for recovery within all service users.
  • To demonstrate a commitment to delivering excellence in clinical care, to work effectively with multi-disciplinary community teams and inpatient teams to promote the safety and well- being of the patients.

Details about the Role:

  • Specialty: Community Mental Health Psychiatry
  • Locations:  Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham & Southwark (South London areas – you pick which location suits you)
  • Start Date: ASAP-ongoing, no end date yet
  • Days per week: Monday-Friday (our client will accept part time consultants 2-3 days per week)
  • Shift Pattern: 9:00-17:00, including on call occasionally
  • Pay rate: £100-£125 per hour (depending on experience)
  • Payment method: PAYE We do NOT facilitate payment through LTD/umbrella companies

The minimum requirements for the role are:

  • Valid GMC
  • Right to work in the UK
  • Clinical attachment complete
  • Minimum 3 months paid UK experience
  • AC Status essential
  • S12 desirable

Our client will consider international doctors who do not have paid UK experience in areas’ where there is high demand, you MUST meet the following requirements:

  • Minimum 10 years of international psychiatry experience – essential (this must be detailed in CV)
  • Valid GMC – essential
  • Right to work in the UK – essential
  • Excellent in verbal and written English – essential
  • Clinical attachment complete – desirable

About the Trust:

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of mental health and substance misuse services in the UK. Locally, it provides clinical services to a combined population of nearly two million people across eight London boroughs.

The Trust, rated as good by the CQC, has a five-year strategy of Aiming High, Changing Lives which sees the Trust focussing on improving crisis, inpatient, and community services across the London boroughs it serves. This is to ensure the patients receive the right care, at the right place, at the right time, and in the most appropriate setting.

How to apply?

To find out more about this opportunity and others please call 03330 143 652 to speak to one of our dedicated recruitment consultants. If you’d like to apply, please email your CV to doctorsjobs@nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk.

Disclaimer:

As an equal opportunities organization, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.