Consultant General Adult Psychiatrist - Daisy Ward

apartmentNorth London NHS Foundation Trust placeLondon calendar_month17/05/2025

Job overview

North London Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks to appoint an
enthusiastic full-time consultant psychiatrist to the Daisy Ward, which
is an 18-bed female acute psychiatric ward in the new Blossom Court
inpatient unit in St Ann’s Hospital in Haringey. The post is available
since a previous substantive consultant moved to a different clinical

area and has been covered by a locum consultant since then.

This post offers 10 Programmed Activities per week – 7.5 PAs for direct
clinical care and up to 2.5 PAs for supporting professional activity. The
post holder will be required to provide clinical and professional
leadership and to take part in related management activities. As a
senior clinician, the post holder will have an integral role in the
performance of the team, further development of the service, and the

development of clinical pathways and priorities.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will act as clinical lead for the multi-disciplinary
team, working in close collaboration with the ward manager and
other senior clinicians in the team.
The ward is a female only psychiatric ward for patients aged 18 years
and above. It serves all of North Central London – so whilst patients
will be primarily from Haringey, some will be from Barnet and
Enfield and on occasion from Camden or Islington. The ward
provides assessment and treatment for patients that present in the
acute phase of a mental illness. Acute presentations cover the
whole spectrum of diagnoses, including schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depressive and
anxiety disorder and severe personality disorders. These are often
complicated by physical comorbidities and substance misuse. Some
patients may have treatment resistant psychosis including severe
negative symptoms and often require prescription of complex
medication regimes or ECT which is currently available at Chase

Farm Hospital

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington.

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to provide clinical leadership for the

only female ward. The post-holder will be expected:

To manage 18 adult inpatients with a variety of psychiatric

diagnoses, many of whom will be detained under a section of
the Mental Health Act (MHA)

To conduct assessments, request investigations and contribute

to formulation of acutely unwell psychiatric inpatients

To formulate treatment plans and oversee implementation and

evaluation of these treatment plans

To contribute to management of patient flow with a view to

manage bed capacity effectively and avoid or flag up potential
delayed transfers of care

To comply with all legal obligations covering clinical practice e.g.

Mental Health Act and Code of Practice, safeguarding
procedures

To complete relevant paperwork, including maintaining the

electronic record and participating in routine outcome
monitoring of clinical work

To teach and supervise medical staff and other professionals in

all aspects of psychiatric care

To participate in the trust-wide day-time consultant psychiatrist

second on-call Rota for Health Based Place of Safety situated at
Chase Farm Hospital (1:32) and the trustwide on call rota (see
section 20, below).

To participate in the daily MDT Meeting and other regular ward

or team meetings including staff supervision. To undertake
other duties, as negotiated, that contribute to the good
functioning of the clinical team.

To take part in weekly Haringey discharge planning meetings

and other regular meetings around patient flow involving
locality and system colleagues.

To provide clinical and professional leadership within the post

Better Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.
and take part in management activities and governance
processes related to the post or the wider service within which
it is embedded.

As a senior clinician, to have an integral role in the performance

of the team, further development of the service, and the

development of the clinical pathways and priorities of the

service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

MB BS or equivalent qualification

Desirable criteria

Qualifications or higher degree in medical education, clinical research or management
Open Dialogue Training
Additional clinical qualification

Eligibility

Essential criteria

Full Registration with the General Medical Council (GMC) with a current licence to practise from the GMC at intended start date
Included on the GMC Specialist Register OR within six months
Approved clinician status OR able to achieve within 3 months of appointment
Section 12 Approved or able to achieve within three months of appointment

Desirable criteria

In good standing with GMC with respect to warning and conditions on practice

Transport

Essential criteria

Valid UK driving licence OR provides evidence of proposed alternative

Clinical skills, knowledge and 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 and lifelong learning

Essential criteria

Able to deliver undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and training
Ability to work in and lead team
Demonstrate commitment to shared leadership and collaborative working to deliver improvement.
Participated in research or service evaluation.
Able to use and appraise clinical evidence
Has actively participated in clinical audit/quality improvement programmes.

Desirable criteria

Able to plan and deliver undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training relevant to this post
Reflect 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 clinical audits leading to service change or improved outcomes to patients

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